Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions

Brazilian education workers begin school year with strikes for decent working conditions

With the school year barely begun, strikes and struggles have already spread to the education systems of several of Brazil’s capitals.

The rector of the UNC referred to the difficulties that high school houses will have to face this year, and to the struggle of the teaching community and nodocente for the wage claim.

Thousands of people graduate each year from the University of Costa Rica (UCR), an institution that is subject to questioning each time the approval of the Special Fund for Higher Education (FEES) is approaching.The teaching house had a 2024 marked by disagreements with the Government in budgetary matters. Faced with the widespread disagreements, the Legislative Assembly had to intercede for the first time in history.This new year generated not …

Coad, Fagdut and Apur hold the second day in all UNR units in the region

From the UNR (APUR) Non-Teaching Workers' Union, they reported that the two-day strike started on Monday recorded a "high compliance." This force measure is carried out in the context that the national government maintains its firm intention not to grant wage increases higher than a single digit. As a result, the last increase was 1.5% for January and 1.2% for February, which generates discontent among workers because the increase is insufficien…

As part of the first day of the 48-hour strike by national universities, Jorge Anró, deputy secretary of the Federación Argentina del Trabajador de las Universidades Nacionales (FATUN), told Radio Universidad that "this government has to understand that the state is of the people and that it will not be able to destroy it." "We would not have to be unemployed. After all we lived last year, we would have to be living another reality. Unfortunatel…