The new

Organic Law of the University System (LOSU)

will recognize for the first time the right to strike of students.

Students will be entitled to call academic strikes and will not be required to take exams or undergo evaluations during that time.

Representatives of the

Coordinator of Representatives of Public Universities

(Creup) and the

Council of State University Students

(Ceune) met this Wednesday with members of the

Ministry of Universities

to agree on the final points of the Losu draft, which is expected to be completed. and will be released in the coming days.

The students have managed to wrest from Minister Joan Subirats' team a claim that they have been claiming for decades.

They want to protect by law the right not to go to class, something that is only regulated on some campuses, such as the

University of the Basque Country.

From the approval of the text, "all universities must enable mechanisms that allow the Student Councils to paralyze academic activity, without affecting the right to teaching and evaluation of the student body," student sources point out.

"Through its recognition in the law, the right to protest is shielded and it is impossible for the student body to suffer any academic consequence for it," they add.

Last November, Congress approved the University Coexistence Law, which shields escraches in universities and leaves them without sanction.

In the initial wording, it was considered a serious offence, punishable by up to a month's expulsion from the university, "to prevent the holding of university teaching, research or knowledge transfer activities."

But to please the ERC just when the General State Budgets were being negotiated, the PSOE and United We Can agree to remove from these assumptions "freedom of expression and the constitutionally recognized rights of assembly, association, demonstration and strike."

Now one more step is taken, because it is the Losu that protects the strike.

In the Ministry they explain that what has been agreed is "that the right to academic unemployment has the status of law. That right and the exercise of it are protected, as well as the right to education for those who do not want to support it."

There has been no agreement in the negotiation, on the other hand, regarding student participation in the governing bodies of the universities.

The students ask to represent 30%-35% of the faculty, but the Ministry does not yield beyond 25%.

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