CNTE Agrees to Lift Sit-In in Mexico City; “We Will Return With Greater Strength,” They Affirm
After 19 days, the CNTE recessed its strike against the 2007 ISSSTE Law; Section 22 of Oaxaca approved the pause 12,818-3,594, framing it as a regrouping.
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Mining Union Denounces Drug Cartel Intrusion with Support of Transnationals
Mining Union attorney says Canadian and U.S. companies are calling in drug-trafficking mafias to break unions at Peñasquito and Camino Rojo.
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CNTE Marches in Chiapas to ‘Keep Up the Pressure’ for Repeal of Education Reform and ISSSTE Law
Section 7 demands Sheinbaum take the negotiating table herself; rejects June 2 counter-proposal and calls for return to IMSS-style solidarity pensions.
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Section 22 of Oaxaca in Favor of Continuing CNTE Strike; National Leadership Defines Course of Walkout Today
CNTE’s national leadership meets today to define the course of the strike.
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CNTE Agrees to Mobilize to the Estadio Ciudad de México During World Cup Inauguration
After failed negotiations with the federal government on ISSSTE pensions, the CNTE teachers union will march to the Estadio Azteca during the World Cup opening.
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CNTE Warns Sheinbaum: Meet Our Demands or We Protest at World Cup Inauguration
With 48 hours to go before the FIFA World Cup opens, the CNTE warns Sheinbaum: meet our pension demands or we will protest at the inauguration.
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Public Insurer is the Way to Meet CNTE Demands; 2007 ISSSTE Law Can’t Disappear ‘Overnight,’ Batres Says
Mexican officials offered a gradual path on teachers’ pension demands: full repeal would cost 7 trillion pesos (20% of GDP), so Pensionissste will grow progressively, with August consultations feeding next session’s bill.
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Historic Profit-Sharing of 1.5 Million Pesos for Each Worker at Peñasquito, Mexico’s Second-Largest Mine
Mexico’s Mining Union wins the largest profit-share in the country’s mining history: 1.5 million pesos for each of Peñasquito’s 2,000 workers.
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Michoacán Congress to Reconsider President Sheinbaum’s “Golden Pension” Reduction Reform
Workers and retirees believe the reduction in pensions violate acquired rights.
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Raising Wages: a Tool for Economic Development
Mexico can’t wait until 2030 to end working poverty, says Sandra Polaski, a member of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.
