Tornel Workers Ask for President Sheinbaum’s Intervention to Resolve Strike
In March, striking workers were attacked on the picket line by an armed shock group who shot four workers.
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Mexico City Workers Call for Unity on May Day; “there are still many labour problems”
“Unity is not only found at the dialogue table but also at this event of workers and workers,” Isaías González of CROC stated.
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Mexico’s Education Secretariat Will Meet with CNTE Teachers on International Workers Day
Secretary Delgado says “there is no need for demonstrations” in the streets, but stressed, “we are respectful” of the decisions they make.
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Mexican Unions Demand Direct Dialogue with President Sheinbaum on May 1st, International Workers Day
Unions say the priority is for the President to hear firsthand the needs of the workers and improve their conditions “in a more real sense”.
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Delgado Asks CNTE Not To Obstruct World Cup
Mexico’s Secretary of Education worries for the success of the ostensible international sporting event marked by proximity to, & encouragement of, human trafficking, labour exploitation, real estate speculation and fascist collaboration.
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CNTE Announces Indefinite Strike in June During World Cup
Teachers consider the strike a “political necessity given the lack of response to the demands for the repeal of the Peña-AMLO education reform and the 2007 ISSSTE Law.”
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Morena Deputies Propose Making Mother’s Day a Paid Holiday
Mexico is one of the countries with the fewest mandatory rest days for workers, the last holiday was added in 1987.
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Volkswagen México Has 15 Days to Comply With Rulings on Anti-union Discrimination
Workers Victor Larios and Vladimir Giron hope to return to their original jobs.
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Government Handing Telmex Over to Carlos Slim for 30 More Years Violates Labour Rights: Telephone Workers
The new concession weakens regulations, the necessity of updating technology and opens the door to even more profiteering & union-busting by one of Mexico’s wealthiest billionaires.
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Teaching History in Mexico & Its Importance in the Teachers Movement
With the passing of Enrique Ávila Carrillo, one of the founders of the CNTE, the democratic Mexican teaching movement loses one of its most committed intellectuals.
