Overview
- University teachers and non‑teaching staff have scheduled a 24‑hour national strike for Tuesday, September 8, followed by national public classes on September 15 and an acto at Palacio Pizzurno on September 17.
- Unions rejected the government’s paritaria offer of about 3% for September and a similar proposal for October, saying the increase is far short of the recomposition they demand to recover lost purchasing power.
- A judicial precautionary order tied to a June 25 court decision requires application of the Law of University Financing and an immediate roughly 31% salary recomposition, and unions say the government has not complied while execution requests and possible sanctions are pending before Judge Martín Cormick.
- The National Interuniversity Council, led by Franco Bartolacci, approved a 2027 budget request of roughly 11 billones pesos and authorized planning for a Fifth Marcha Federal Universitaria in the first week of October if there is no compliance.
- The dispute is already hindering operations: unions estimate more than 300,000 university workers are affected, local campuses like UNLP report about 30 strike days so far in 2026, and institutions warn prolonged stalemate will erode teaching, research and scholarship funds.