A group of almost 4,500 university professionals plan to demonstrate in the coming weeks against the measures proposed by the new directive of the Retirement and Pension Fund for University Professionals (Cjppu) to lower the body’s deficit.
the lawyers Paula Gutierrez and Carolina Sotelo They are the administrators of a facebook group called March to the Professional Box that you already have 4,463 members since its creation two weeks ago.
“We grouped together to march and claim before the Caja Profesional for the measures to be implemented due to the lousy management and its ineffectiveness, we demand a reduction in salaries for managerial positions”, they write in the group information.
The professionals of the Facebook group They have already held meetings via Zoom and they are right now defining who will be the spokesperson for the group before the press, so they have not wanted to make more statements.
different professionals have manifested themselves in social networks after knowing the measures that the Cjppu presented to the Executive Power.
The controversial measures
The new Board of Directors of the Cjppu presented to the Executive Branch a battery of urgent measures to address the financial crisis of the organization among which stand out ask passive affiliates and professionals who do not practice to contribute about $4,000 a year.
In an interview with the weekly Search, the president of the Cjppu, Virginia Romero, argued why this measure was proposed and what is sought. According to Romero, it is not yet clear if this initiative will prosper or not. “What we do believe is that we should better monitor those who declare they do not exercise and could be exercising. So, if the person has to come to make an annual, bi-annual or tri-annual affidavit, it is a way of verifying that he continues to maintain his condition of not exercising the profession freely.“, he commented.
Romero considered that those professionals who do not exercise are a “source of income” and generate a “administrative cost for the Cjppu”. “Whether it’s $4,000 or $500, we don’t know. We put an amount; maybe the amount is less. The reason why you have to pay is not that we charge you for non-exercise, but that we come the other way: for the control“, argument.
The president of the Caja de Profesionales admitted that there may be cases of professionals who declared the non-exercise that they must pay for being university graduates. In the interview with Search she was asked if that measure seemed fair to her.
“And is it fair that the asset should pay? What we are saying is that we have to monitor this entire group. None of the measures have any justice! They are measures that in the very short term we need to put them. If you told me you are 10 years old, everything would go differently. What we did was pay for that measure. If tomorrow the Executive Power says “charge $500″, well, that’s a big deal,” responded Romero, who added that it is not expected that this contribution will generate any kind of benefit for those potential new taxpayers that are intended to be included to help reduce the numbers. body red.
“We know that the measures are not nice, we have said it from the first day. But we come to save the box, which is not saved if we do not have someone to put the money“, declared the president of the Cjppu.
deficit
The deficit of the Caja de Profesionales para el The 2021-2026 period would be between US$166 million and US$262 million in a medium scenario, while in a pessimistic scenario, the estimated amount of the deficits would range from US$238 million to US$329 million.
To activate several of the measures promoted by the new Directory of the Caja de Profesionales to balance its numbers and avoid bankruptcy, a law must be passed in Parliament.
