ADIUC decided to intensify its protest measures after the 48-hour national strike and announced that the July exam sessions will not be held for any of UNC's student bodies.The decision also includes not starting the second semester, putting academic calendars and degrees already scheduled by the Student Affairs Secretariat on hold. The union assembly justified the measure due to the "university emergency" and stated that "without salary adjustments and without a funding law, there will be no normality."
During the strike, signatures were collected to demand that Congress approve the University Funding Law. Meanwhile, as that legislative approval is sought, the university remains virtually closed and offers no certainty to those who need to take final exams or begin professional internships. Thus, in practice, UNC leaves thousands of students stranded and without the option of regular classes.
Non-teaching staff also joined the national strike, intensifying the administrative paralysis that halts the processing of scholarships, degrees, and research files. The union leadership proposed progressive and rotating strikes by faculty,a scheme that guarantees permanent instability and confusion in every academic schedule. Thus, UNC is experiencing the suspension of basic services while the labor dispute moves into a new cycle of marches and protest days.
Según comunicó ADIUC, el 99,2% de los votantes se manifestó a favor de profundizar el conflicto
Students without classes, once again
According to ADIUC, the decision to suspend exam sessions and classes "is in line with the results of the University Faculty Consultation." There, 99.2% of voters expressed support for intensifying the conflict. What they do not mention is that these measures affect students who prepared to take exams, planned their schedules, and now become hostages to the union's will.
Among the new actions decided by the faculty union is the so-called "no start of classes" with progressive and rotating strikes according to each faculty's schedule. This scheme aims to sustain the conflict over time, leaving each academic unit responsible for deciding exactly when and how activities will be halted. The fragmentation of the protest guarantees constant disruption of classes, without offering any certainty to students or their families.
ADIUC's assembly also decided to submit these decisions to national university federations and unions as a preliminary step to a new federal march. In addition, legislators will be urgently required to address the University Funding Law. Meanwhile, the main victims continue to be the students, who have no classes, can't take exams, and see their academic progress delayed by a dispute that is not their own.
