Con family loans and the use of card This is how about twenty interim professors at the Faculty of Languages of the University survive. Veracruz University, those who have not received payment for their work since the beginning of the school year, the last August 21.
Yesterday, Monday, classes resumed at the UV Faculty of Languages after two days of inactivity due to a protest and accepted the deal offered by the UV rectorate, to deliver the back salaries on October 12.
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How long did the sit-down take take?
And since Thursday, about 20 teachers carried out a sit-down strike because they had not received payment for their work, Teacher Olga Lidia Sánchez specified that these are interim teachers, some of whom teach more than 20 hours of classes a week. He specified that the decision to return to the classrooms was made after meeting with their union representatives, who told them that due to administrative reasons they would not be able to pay their debts before October 12.
“Then we understood that there was no point in affecting the classes of the different academic programs, because they would not pay us anyway, but what they did do was accelerate the process of signing the proposals to all the professors so that they would receive their full payment and debts on Friday, October 11th. They set the deadline of the 12th, but since it is Saturday, they have to pay us on Friday,” he explained.
He indicated that the economic conditions of each teacher are different, “because in my case they pay me for some hours, but there are 20 hours a week for which I have not received payment. There are fellow teachers who are owed 20 hours a week during this time.”
He indicates that there are professors who, in addition to teaching at the UV, teach in high schools or teach privately and that is what has allowed them to endure, “but I understand that there are colleagues who have had to resort to paying with credit cards, while they are paid, that is why it is urgent that the payments come out of the House of Studies.”
Explain that the economic situation of each teacher varies. “Because there are those of us who have children and had to pay for tuition, uniforms and school supplies and it was done without the salary that we already had planned for teaching at the UV. This delay complicated everyone, because there will be those who do not have those commitments, but the majority must pay rent, services, food, transportation and survive without the resources they should receive from these classes.”
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With those other jobs that some teachers have is how they have survived these fortnights without pay, he said.
The representative indicated that what led them to do the sit-down strike, which was supported by all the teachers on the basis that if they have received payment, it is because they had not even signed the proposals, which are contracts.
What did the Payroll Department respond?
But with the pressure that came with the protest, he said, personnel from the Payroll Department arrived, with the corresponding documentation for them to sign because otherwise they would be paid until the 30th or later. “But it was agreed that everyone would be paid on the 12th of this month. We signed on Thursday at ten for 6 in the afternoon.”
It was then that it was decided to resume the classes taught to in-person undergraduate students: English Language and French Language. In addition to online degree programs in which multiple languages are taught. In addition, the Foreign Language Department classes, which teach languages such as Italian, Portuguese and Japanese, among others, were suspended.
2023-10-03 09:17:47
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