USP Staff End Strike After Deal to Match Bonus Funding

Overview

• USP's technical and administrative workers ended their walkout after the union approved the reitoria's offer that closes a roughly ten‑day strike.
• The agreement uses the same annual pool set for the professors’ GACE bonus, about R$238.44 million, to pay staff roughly R$1,600 per month each.
• GACE, approved on March 31, pays up to R$4,500 per month to professors for strategic projects, which sparked the call for equal treatment across the university.
• The union said the deal requires written guarantees that include no retaliation, pay for strike days, and formal talks with students who remain on strike.
• Student leaders continue a separate stoppage to seek higher permanence grants, from R$880 to about R$1,800, and safer, better university dining after outsourcing complaints, as a wider national mobilization of support staff presses for a 30‑hour week and RSC recognition under a law now being implemented.