The UCV workers announced that in 2025 they will continue on the streets denouncing all the abuses of which they are victims: “We ratify, starting in 2025 we will fight, as it should be, in the streets with our rights.”
Active and retired workers, workers and professors of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), grouped in the National Union Association of University Professionals in Administrative and Technical Functions of the Central University of Venezuela (Apufat-UCV), stated this Tuesday, December 10 that the national government has the resources to raise the minimum wage to $200.
On International Human Rights Day, UCV employees denounced that the authorities violate their rights by having them for a thousand days without a salary increase, which represents two years, eight months and 25 days with an insufficient amount. Argelia Castillo, secretary of Apufat-UCVrecalled that this situation violates the Constitution and their rights.
He specified that the workers of the Central University of Venezuela do not have “HCM, salary, but we also do not have benefits for our children, adolescents and our family nucleus. We should have a salary of approximately $1,250 dollars.
The president of the Association of Professors of the Central University of Venezuela (Apucv), José Gregorio Afonso, reiterated that the bonus of $130 ($90 economic war bonus and $40 food bonus) that is granted to workers of different levels It is not a salary, “it is a minimum vital income” that has no salary implications and requires it to be converted into a salary.
Given the precariousness of salary and working conditions, university professors, workers and other employees of the UCV announced that in 2025 they will continue on the streets denouncing all the abuses of which they are victims: “We ratify, starting in 2025 we will fight , as it should be, in the street with our rights.
For his part, Afonso stated that the salary of Venezuelan workers has disappeared: “There is nothing sadder than this Christmas because our year-end bonus is almost 80% less than what we earn in 2022 and to top it all off they paid us fractioning and devaluing,” he said.
The workers of the Central University of Venezuela indicated that “they work elsewhere to finance the work at the university” and maintained that the economic blockade “is no excuse” for not increasing salaries because countries such as Cuba, Syria, Russia, Iran and China are also sanctioned and have higher minimum wages than Venezuela.
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