Overview
- Technical and administrative workers at USP are on an open-ended strike that has halted most classes and closed cafeterias and other services, with students joining pickets on campus.
- The union says the university scheduled an initial bargaining session but has not presented a formal offer to end the stoppage.
- Workers point to a new faculty-only bonus as the flashpoint, a program called GACE that pays fixed monthly sums for up to 24 months on strategic projects, with reports citing about R$4,500.
- The core demands include a roughly 14% salary adjustment, incorporation of R$1,600 into base pay, and changes to rules that require compensating bridge-holiday and year-end recess hours.
- Students added calls to raise need-based PAPFE stipends to R$1,000 and R$500, improve campus dining, and share control over student spaces, while the rector’s office says R$461 million will fund 15,869 recipients in 2026.