The CNTE, the body to which the 20,000 strikers belong, considered the 10% salary increase announced by President AMLO insufficient.
Nearly 20,000 members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) and supporters began a strike and sit-in this Wednesday that covers more than 40 streets in the center of Oaxaca, to pressure the Government ahead of the June 2 election. .
The teachers of Oaxaca, one of the entities with the greatest presence of the CNTE – the largest dissident teachers union in Mexico – began the indefinite strike to demand salary improvements from the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the total repeal of the former president’s educational reform Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018).
The CNTE, which also protested and set up a sit-in in Mexico City, considered the 10% salary increase that López Obrador announced this Wednesday, Teacher’s Day, insufficient, which means that they will now earn 17,635 pesos per month ($1,047.2), a total increase of 47.5% during his six-year term (2018-2024).
Likewise, the march in Oaxaca, where the state government fears that almost 1 million students will be left without classes, began at the Juárez Monument, on federal highway 190 at the exit to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, from where it advanced more than six kilometers towards the capital’s zócalo, without incident.
The general secretary of Section 22 of the CNTE, Yeny Pérez Martínez, announced that the mobilization could extend until election day, but that will depend on the responses of the authorities.
“Now, of course, we find ourselves in this political situation that will depend on the federal and state governments, according to the responses to our demands (we will define) how far this day of struggle will extend,” he stated.
According to the leader, this indefinite strike, which leaves more than 11,000 schools without classes, is the first to be carried out in López Obrador’s six-year term and the first of the governor of Oaxaca, the ruling party Salomón Jara, who took office in 2022.
“After several years without mobilization of the democratic teaching profession (…), today the CNTE, the democratic teaching profession, takes to the streets again with an indefinite work stoppage,” declared the representative.
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“Today in Oaxaca we are going to have a sit-in that we hope will not last too long so as not to affect, above all, the school year and Oaxacan children, there will be a response to their specifications,” he said.
This year’s CNTE petition list includes 48 points, among which the teaching profession considers immovable the repeal of the educational reform and the Pension Law of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (ISSSTE), salary increase, and better infrastructure. (EFE)
Source:aristeguinoticias
