Argentina: University Front Holds Protest
University Front in Demostration, Sept 2024 Photo: PL
September 5, 2024 Hour: 12:20 pm
In a communiqué, the Front highlighted the strikes and days of dissemination of the sector’s demands, carried out in recent weeks, and said that they had a very high level of support and impact on the educational community and the public sphere.
On Thursday, the National Universities Union Front is set to hold a strike and mobilization in front of Congress to defend public education with decent salaries and to repudiate the veto of the Argentinean president, Javier Milei, to a law on pension mobility.
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On Tuesday, the Senate’s Education and Culture and Budget and Finance Committees gave a positive opinion to a regulation on the budget of higher education institutions and declared it ready to be analysed by all members of the upper house.
The legislators of Unión por la Patria demanded that a session be held to vote on it and announced that they will go to the chamber at 14:00 local time this day to address this and other issues such as the granting of 100 billion pesos (more than 100 million dollars) in reserved expenses to the State Intelligence Secretariat.
However, Milei said that, if the law on education funding is passed, it will be stopped by him, as will the increase in the salaries of retirees and pensioners.
In a communiqué, the Front highlighted the strikes and days of dissemination of the sector’s demands, carried out in recent weeks, and said that they had a very high level of support and impact on the educational community and the public sphere.
This shows that there is a strong base to defend the public university. We support the law and we demand that the upper house now gives its final approval. This law is a direct consequence of the great federal march of 23 April and the enormous plan of union action deployed in the first four months of the year, the text indicates.
In addition, the organisation expressed its support for retirees and pensioners who were repressed by the police the day before when they denounced Milei’s measures.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: The Independent-The Star
