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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No New Talks Between CNTE, Segob, and SEP, Sheinbaum Affirms; ‘Tripartite’ Meetings Are Proposed in the States
Decision comes after CNTE sections voted over the weekend to keep the strike; government points to an August school-by-school Usicamm consultation.
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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.
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CNTE: A Media Manual for Inciting Hatred
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.
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Guerrero Teachers Injured in Mexico City Strike Repression Campaigned for Sheinbaum, AMLO
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.
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Marches & Blockades by Thousands of Teachers in at Least 10 Mexican States
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.
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What Are Mexico’s Striking Teachers of the CNTE Demanding?
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.
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CNTE Blocking Zirahuén Toll Booth After Murder of Teacher in Michoacán
The blockade is in response to the murder of teacher Felipe de Jesús Martínez and the serious injuries of another, Adelaida Zacarías Pascual, after an attack in Pómaro yesterday.
