CNTE Will Again Block Reforma, from the Ángel to El Caballito
Day 16 of the national strike: contingents from six states gather at three points, with an afternoon forum on Pensionissste planned.
Day 16 of the national strike: contingents from six states gather at three points, with an afternoon forum on Pensionissste planned.
Section 7 demands Sheinbaum take the negotiating table herself; rejects June 2 counter-proposal and calls for return to IMSS-style solidarity pensions.
Decision comes after CNTE sections voted over the weekend to keep the strike; government points to an August school-by-school Usicamm consultation.
CNTE’s national leadership meets today to define the course of the strike.
Starting in August, the federal government will consult Mexico’s teachers school by school, bypassing union leaderships, on the elimination of Ussicamm and its alternative.
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.
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.
Teachers are demanding that President Sheinbaum keep her campaign promise to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law.
The Mexican teachers say they “are in a battle against financial forces that refuse to be challenged,” and that they “will have to build bridges with many organizations affected by pensions.”