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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Student Strike at University of Puerto Rico Enters 28th Day
Democracy Now Students from the University of Puerto Rico have been in strike for 28 days. Riot police are trying to break the strike by denying food and water to students who have occupied the campus. (Thanks Mara)
A day before (yesterday) an island-wide work stoppage called by unions in solidarity with University of Puerto Rico striking students, university professors and workers reiterated Monday their backing of the strike and demanded the UPR administration restart talks “in good faith” with the students. To help pressure the administration to start such negotiations, UPR maintenance employees in the Workers Syndicate started a week-long stoppage that closed down the Medical Sciences Campus, the sole campus whose students have not approved an indefinite strike. They also blocked the entrance to the UPR Central Administration offices at the Botanical Gardens in Río Piedras.
Rejecting Gov. Fortuño’s assertion that they are “outside forces” meddling in the University of Puerto Rico, unionized workers who participated in Tuesday’s 24-hour island-wide general stoppage in solidarity with striking students said the island’s public university system’s obligation to provide affordable quality education to working-class students is being threatened by the administration’s austerity measures.
The New York Times: After negotiations between the administration and students fell apart on Thursday, Aura Colón Solá, a member of the university’s law school action committee, said she was prepared to continue the strike for several more months. She said she was upset that university officials had sued some student leaders to try to end the strike.
“You do not sue students if you really intend to negotiate,” she said. “It is ridiculous. They would have to sue the 200 students in here and the thousands that voted in favor of this.”
Restrictions on food and water have been lifted!
ReplyDeleteA day before (yesterday) an island-wide work stoppage called by unions in solidarity with University of Puerto Rico striking students, university professors and workers reiterated Monday their backing of the strike and demanded the UPR administration restart talks “in good faith” with the students. To help pressure the administration to start such negotiations, UPR maintenance employees in the Workers Syndicate started a week-long stoppage that closed down the Medical Sciences Campus, the sole campus whose students have not approved an indefinite strike. They also blocked the entrance to the UPR Central Administration offices at the Botanical Gardens in Río Piedras.
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ReplyDeleteRejecting Gov. Fortuño’s assertion that they are “outside forces” meddling in the University of Puerto Rico, unionized workers who participated in Tuesday’s 24-hour island-wide general stoppage in solidarity with striking students said the island’s public university system’s obligation to provide affordable quality education to working-class students is being threatened by the administration’s austerity measures.
ReplyDeleteThe New York Times:
ReplyDeleteAfter negotiations between the administration and students fell apart on Thursday, Aura Colón Solá, a member of the university’s law school action committee, said she was prepared to continue the strike for several more months. She said she was upset that university officials had sued some student leaders to try to end the strike.
“You do not sue students if you really intend to negotiate,” she said. “It is ridiculous. They would have to sue the 200 students in here and the thousands that voted in favor of this.”