Teachers' unions in Argentina called for a national strike from March 16 to 20

Published at: 10/03/2026 12:39 PM

The main associations of teachers in Argentina called for a national strike from March 16 to 20, to demand that the government of Javier Milei comply with the University Funding Act, an instrument that orders a wage increase of 51%, Página 12 reported.

“There is a lot of anger at the university, there are teachers who no longer want to go back to the classroom. A first-time assistant with simple dedication and ten years of experience earns less than 250,000 pesos per month. I myself, thirty years old, charge 300,000 for my 10-hour position,” she told Laura Carboni, head of the Teachers' Guild Association of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

Carboni criticized the position of the National Inter-University Council (CIN) and the UBA authorities, considering that “they are not doing enough force” to defend the increase approved in Congress, vetoed by Milei and finally ordered by a court ruling.

The members are against the proposal of the ultra-liberal Government: to replace the increase of 51% or 52% with an increase of only 12.3% in three installments, the last instance of which would be collected only in September, thus ignoring all the wage debt of 2024.

Mazo News Team