Sheinbaum Does Not Convince Teachers with Salary Increases: They Set up Tents in the Zócalo

The mega march and work stoppage led by the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) arrived in the Zócalo of Mexico City minutes after noon on Thursday, May 15, Teacher’s Day. In this way, teachers fulfilled their threat of an indefinite sit-in despite the salary increase proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum and will remain on the Zócalo iron, where tents have already been installed despite high-temperature alerts that provide for up…

In the framework of the Day of the Teacher, members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers, marched from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo capitalino. Since Wednesday night, hundreds of teachers settled in the Plaza de la Constitución to start with an indefinite national strike. In [...] The article March the CNTE to demand that the federal government comply with its demands appeared first in: 88.9 News.

In the framework of Teachers' Day, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced a 9 percent salary increase for the country's teachers, retroactive to January 1, in addition to an additional 1 percent starting in September as recognition. In a meeting with teachers from the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE), Sheinbaum Pardo indicated that her government has made a great effort to achieve this. She also announced an extra week of vacation…

Mexico City, Mexico.- As part of the celebration of the Day of the Teacher, thousands of teachers affiliated with the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) mobilized this Thursday in Mexico City to install an indefinite sit-in in the capital's Zócalo, as a measure of pressure to demand wage and labor improvements. Teachers from all over the country demand a 100% increase and the repeal of the ISSSTE Law of 2007; they reject the increa…

This Thursday, the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) is mobilizing in the capital of the country to demand from the authorities a wage increase and the abrogation of the...

In the middle of May 15, Teacher’s Day and Teacher’s Day, teachers rejected the 9% wage increase announced by President Claudia Sheinbaum. “No, definitely not. Last year with the mobilizations we achieved 14% to 16%. Then, of course, we do not agree with that salary increase, especially if we translate it into the fact that the vast majority of schoolmates who have only one place, earn about 7,000 pesos fortnightly,” said Francisco Bravo, former…