Overview
- The Sindicato de Trabajadores Académicos de la Universidad de Sonora (STAUS) keeps a permanent extraordinary assembly after sending a counterproposal and will vote on whether to end the strike that began on May 14, which has halted classes for more than 42,000 students.
- Universidad de Sonora (Unison) has ratified a salary package that includes a 4% general raise plus small tiered extras and expanded fixed benefits, and says federal and state authorities reported no extra resources to improve the offer.
- STAUS responded with a 16-point demand set that calls for a Programa de Recuperación Salarial to recover long-lost purchasing power, a 0.5% table adjustment (seeking a full 1% for all staff), greater union input on the academic statute, and guaranteed payment of 'salarios caídos' after any strike.
- In Argentina negotiators and rectors have moved toward an interim 24.3% recomposition for university funds, but the government’s condition that universities withdraw a judicial cautionary claim has stalled a formal deal and prompted unions to plan national strikes.
- National university federations in Argentina have announced coordinated actions that include classes-publics and a national one-week strike from June 16–20, heightening the risk of further disruption to the academic calendar if talks do not resume.