Universities: After today’s strike, teaching unions confirm new action for next week

University teaching unions said the sector’s strike achieved near-total participation and warned that the dispute would continue into next week. The Federation of University Teachers, or Fedun, said the action involved national universities and reflected opposition to the government’s latest salary proposal.

The unions have returned to the same central demands that have driven the conflict for months: salary updates, compliance with the university funding law and higher student scholarships. They rejected a 3% increase offered for September. Another 3% increase for October had already been agreed.

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The university community is standing firm and will not accept another provocation from the government.

Fedun Secretary-General Daniel Ricci said the participation rate showed that “the university community is standing firm and will not accept another provocation from the government.” He argued that a 32% adjustment would be needed to recover purchasing power lost since the university funding law took effect.

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There is a law in force, there is an injunction requiring salaries and scholarships to be restored, and there is a government that continues not to comply.

“There is a law in force, there is an injunction requiring salaries and scholarships to be restored, and there is a government that continues not to comply,” Ricci said. He added that unions would continue their campaign until the funding law was implemented.

Fedun also highlighted what it described as broad public support for Argentina’s public universities. Ricci said that support remained essential to the struggle, which he framed as a defense of education, science, technology and a national development model. In June, the government and university rectors reached an agreement that included a 24.33% salary increase and additional funding for scholarships, university hospitals and operating costs. The agreement sought to ease the budget dispute, but the article said it had not yet been implemented.

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The Argentine people have already shown that the public university is not alone.