The professors at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) are on strike as from yesterday, Tuesday 31 January 2017, claiming the Rectory has not secured additional government funds for a pay raise for them.
The president of the Federation of Professors’ Association of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (Faprouasd), Santiago Guillermo, said that the rector of the university, Iván Grullón, was the enemy of the students and not the union as it was in his hands whether classes return to normal at the university.
The professors have been having protests over the last 18 months demanding a salary increase of 40%, with 15% before the start of the first semester of 2017.
Professors at the state university are the best paid in the country with the most accommodating benefits.
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Diario Libre
1 February 2017
