The seven week old strike that has impeded the opening of the semester at the UASD continues. The rector of the UASD, Edylberto Cabral, has said that if the striking administration employees cannot reach an agreement with the UASD authorities, the university will order they be forcibly taken out of the institution. The employees have taken over the finance, registration and academic coordination offices. The University Council has ordered the expulsion of the striking directors of the employees union. He said the UASD is losing RD$2 million a day with the strike. Nearly 100,000 students are affected. Most of these students study free or pay very little at the university which is subsidized by the government. The UASD is probably the university in this country that pays the best salaries to its employees and professors.
