Overview
- STEUS, which walked out Thursday after a 1,028–595 vote, has kept campus gates closed and left more than 40,000 students without classes.
- A local labor court archived the union’s formal strike filing, and the rector said the stoppage lacks legal basis, while STEUS filed an injunction to restore the procedure and trigger a new vote if granted.
- The university touted a differentiated pay proposal worth over 50 million pesos, offering up to 12.89% raises for lower pay bands and tapering to 5.08% for higher levels, which the union called insufficient.
- After meetings with state officials, the union said the government verbally floated an extra 2 million pesos that it is analyzing, and it is pressing to amend Clause 16 to tie annual pay adjustments to the minimum wage.
- Business chambers and student groups urged an urgent, permanent talks table with the state as facilitator, and the academic union STAUS halted teaching in solidarity and asked to restart salary talks.