US EditionTeachers in Mexico Just Got a Raise. Why Are They Protesting?
- A major teachers' union in Mexico, known as CNTE, has been protesting in Mexico City since May 15, leading to airport disruptions and the closure of numerous schools.
- The protests follow CNTE's demand to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE Law, which changed pension calculations from minimum wage to individual savings funds.
- Protesters camped in the Zócalo seek retirement after 28 years for women and 30 years for men, conditions predating the current law.
- President Sheinbaum announced a 9% pay increase effective from the start of the year, followed by a further 1% raise beginning in September; however, CNTE criticized these measures as inadequate.
- The CNTE plans to continue protests through June 1 unless the government offers a concrete repeal of the ISSSTE Law and pension reforms.
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Teachers in Mexico just got a raise. Why are they protesting?
The National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), one of Mexico’s most powerful teachers’ unions, has maintained a series of protests in Mexico City since May 15 as part of a national strike to demand changes in working and educational conditions. Demonstrations have included toll booth takeovers, embassy protests, sit-ins at the capital’s Zócalo, blockades at Mexico City International Airport (AICM) and main roads such as Chapultepec, Cuau…
Teachers Protest Before the INE and Sheinbaum Counterattacks: “They Do What the Opposition Proposes”
Mexico aligns the last week towards the historic judicial elections and the whole country has a fixed view of what will happen this Sunday. No one is alien to this unprecedented event and everyone is looking to attract it to its cause, also the teachers of the National Coordinator (CNTE), who this Monday have displaced their protests to the doors of the National Electoral Institute (INE), among other public offices, such as those of the Secretar…
The National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) announced that the teachers of the union could boycott the elections of the judiciary, scheduled for June 1, if the demands of the center are not met.The organization called on President Claudia Sheinbaum to reinstall a negotiating table. “Otherwise, the boycott of the elections of June 1 is proposed,” the CNTE warned. CNTE announced that by Monday, May 26, protests will be held at the Ministr…
Mexico City.- After ensuring that the federal government has already removed the mask of progressive, popular and democratic, the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), who has maintained a sit-in in the Zócalo since last May 15th, now gropes with blocking on Monday the facilities of the SEP, the INE and the Ministry of Finance. Members of the teachers’ dissidence pointed out that the blockades will be carried out on May 26 from 9:00 …
By Rafael Briceño CHETUMAL, MX.- After members of the Magisterial Struggle Committee demonstrated in front of the building of the Secretariat of Education of Quintana Roo (SEQ) in rejection of the administrative sanctions and discounts applied to teachers who participated in mobilizations prior to May 15, this Tuesday the protest moved to [...] The post During breakfast for the Teacher's Day, teachers protest for discounts and administrative san…
Following the call of the Guatemalan Education Workers Union (STEG), public sector teachers began an indefinite demonstration in the Plaza de la Constitución in protest against the Ministry of Education. President Arévalo assured that the right to demonstrate will be respected, but warned that teachers who do not guarantee the right to education of students, especially in the school cycle, will be punished. The president reiterated that the dial…
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