Xinhua

The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, p. 26

Buenos Aires, Argentina – University workers in Argentina yesterday began a 72-hour general strike to demand higher salaries, local media reported. Teachers’ strike: National universities did not start the second quarter. The Ministry of Human Capital offered a 3 percent salary increase this month and another 2 percent for September, but even so, workers would not recover purchasing power due to inflation, so they decreed the strike.published the newspaper The Nation. The decision was made by the teaching and non-teaching staff of public universities across the country. The National Federation of University Teachers, Researchers and Creators stated that The accumulated inflation from December 2023 to June 2024 was 125.5 percentwhile The wage gap with respect to inflation is 57.7 percent, but it even reaches 101.8 percent.