Overview
- UBA’s Superior Council unanimously ratified a 2026 budget and salary emergency and pressed for inflation-linked updates with priority for university hospitals.
- National university unions and federations confirmed a coordinated week of stoppages from March 16 to 20 and warned the conflict threatens the start of the academic year.
- A federal judge, Martín Cormick, suspended a decree that blocked the law and ordered the Executive to apply the salary and scholarship updates it provides.
- The government sent Congress a new bill to revise the financing scheme, including a 12.3% increase in three installments, which unions dismissed as insufficient.
- Regional institutions such as the National University of Rosario and the UTN joined the plan of action, with rectors citing resignations, severe pay erosion and operational strain across teaching, research and health services.