Overview
- Conadu Histórica’s congress unanimously rejected the government and rectors’ agreement and ratified a 96-hour national strike that began Tuesday and runs through the weekend.
- The pact signed by the national government and the National Interuniversity Council offers roughly a 21.3% raise in June and a smaller follow-up increase, plus a 50% boost in student scholarships, 20% for operating funds, and 50,000 million pesos for university hospitals.
- Unions say the Law of University Financing requires a much larger salary recomposition of about 50–54% to recover December 2023 purchasing power and call the government’s offer insufficient.
- Repeated stoppages since February have already erased dozens of academic days this year and the current strike is disrupting classes, exams, labs and research with adhesion varying by campus and pre-university schools.
- The dispute is moving into legal and street fronts as the government and rectors submit the act to the Supreme Court and unions mount mobilizations and petitions while parents consider legal complaints over interrupted schooling.