University demands against Argentina's Milei escalate with student protests and faculty strikes

Teachers’ unions stage walkouts and faculty unions strike across Argentina while students occupy University of Buenos Aires buildings to protest budget and salary cuts. Schools affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires have been occupied since Tuesday, including Escuela Carlos Pellegrini and Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. Student assemblies decided on indefinite occupations, reviewed day by day, to keep the conflict visible and inform society. The protests demand that the government respect the university financing law. The academic community awaits a Supreme Court ruling on the government’s noncompliance after the law was passed by Congress and then vetoed by the president. The situation is described as reaching a breaking point.

"Since Tuesday, schools affiliated with the country's largest university, the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), have been occupied by students. And faculty unions are staging strikes across the country all week. The government is engaged in a flagrant act of unconstitutionality. It has an obligation to comply with the existing law, said Clara Chevalier, a teacher and leader of the union Conadu. We have shown that sustaining a public, high-quality university is a point of agreement for Argentine society, she added."

"For the moment the measure affects the secondary schools that are part of the UBA: Escuela Carlos Pellegrini and Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. Student assemblies decided to occupy both institutions for an indefinite period, although the occupation is being reviewed day to day. The idea is to make the conflict visible, to inform society about what is happening because it is truly very serious. The situation is at a breaking point, said Francisco Pitrola, president of the student center at Nacional Buenos Aires."

"The demand over funding and salaries at public universities in Argentina shows no signs of abating. Protests and strikes resumed this week to demand that the government of Javier Milei respect the university financing law, while the academic community awaits a ruling from the Supreme Court of Justice on the government's noncompliance. To the strikes and other protests that professors have been carrying out since March, student-organized occupations of schools have now been added."

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