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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Workers and retirees believe the reduction in pensions violate acquired rights.
Mexico can’t wait until 2030 to end working poverty, says Sandra Polaski, a member of the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.
We have returned to the stage of prioritizing lies over a minimum exercise of truthfulness, wrote Jenaro Villamil in 2013. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Proceso Columbo González González lost his eye from a rubber bullet reportedly fired by Mexico City riot police, while Octavio Romero was struck in the face with a metal rod.
Teachers are demanding the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE and 1997 IMSS laws; as well as the repeal of Peña Nieto’s 2012 education reform and salary increases.
The teachers’ national strike centers around demands to end the privatized pensions built on the Pinochet model, a dignified retirement, & for President Sheinbaum to keep her promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law.