Academic and administrative staff at Argentina’s public universities have launched a 24-hour strike to protest the Lower House’s vote to support President Javier Milei’s veto on a bill that would have granted them a funding increase. The National Universities Union Front — which brings together several university professors’ unions — called for their members to go on strike on Thursday and redouble their demands for higher salaries and a larger budget for universities. Over 30 teachers and researchers from the University of Buenos Aires’s Agronomy Faculty resigned recently as the wage crisis worsens, the institution said in a statement. Most deputies rejected Milei’s veto, but the opposition failed to gather the special two-thirds majority required to overturn a presidential block. Students and staff occupied La Matanza University for the first time in its history on Wednesday.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald October 10, 2024 14:24 UTC