Morelia, Michoacán,-in the middle of the lack of resources for the payment of wages, the rector Medardo Serna González and the leaders of the SPUM, Jorge Luis Avila Rojas and the SUEUM Eduardo Tena Flores attended the Congress of the State to support article 143 constitutional reform and achieve greater resources for the home of Hidalgo.
Received by the President of the Board of political coordination, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla pointed out that public universities are called to be architects of the social, political, economic and cultural transformation of this country. “In the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo we declare ready and willing – as we have always been-, to address this fundamental challenge, as maximum House of studies of the entity, today recognized as one of the best seven universities of the” country”.
It is necessary to overcome the smack of a neo-liberal restrictive educational policy that in recent decades, and especially in the past three years negatively impacted the finances of the University, when it reduced its regular annual budget and extraordinary alarmingly, caused the financial deficit.
They said that since August the State contribution of the deposit fund is debited and is neither has the resources to give effect to the promotions of the academic and administrative staff. We have already four fortnight with delayed or incomplete payment on their wages.
United sectors of the Universidad Michoacana: authorities, teachers, administrative and manual workers, and retired staff, spoke out in favour of an adequate and timely budget allowing the University to operate with the guarantee of not stopping his March through insolvency economic and failure to pay for their workers by that in a document also supported the working bases the Nicolás ruled by an annual budget allocated to the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo of at least the equivalent of 6% total of the expenditure budget of the free and sovereign of Michoacan de Ocampo State, as proposed the initiative for reform of the article 143 of the Constitution politics of Michoacán, requesting the precision in the wording of the first paragraph of the reform and the fourth transitory article, according to the attached document.
They made it clear for the year 2019, is required under the regular budget included the more than 501 billion pesos approved by the legislature LXXIII for the year 2016 and that were not delivered as part of the regular budget, to which must be added the subsequent annual increases, including the 2019, it must at least be equivalent to the increase for inflation, and of course, the possibility that agreed a budget of at least 6 per cent of the budget for the following year shall be deemed State.
Whereas, for the closing of the year 2018, they requested that the Executive of the State and the Local Congress may allocate the resources remaining for examples of programs for the current year, as well as accompany the management of extraordinary support to the Federation.
Both the rector and the Union leaders agreed in highlighting actions in defense of the maximum House of studies in Michoacan, “at the crossroads that restrictive policies of the former regime put the vast majority of Mexicans today We know that public education and University, are not the problem but part of the solution to a New Mexico, and a new Michoacan strong, prosperous, fair and sustainable”while Ramirez Bedolla recognized the meaning of such actions on the part of University students, “me is proud to receive these documents reflecting the feel to the nicolaitans, it is not easy, because treatment had been received is to be besieged and blackmailed, so it’s different now”.
