From the correspondents
The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 22, 2024, p. 12
On Wednesday, trusted and permanent employees of the Federal Judicial Branch (PJF) joined the national strike in Jalisco, Sinaloa, Coahuila, Tlaxcala and Oaxaca, which aims to prevent the approval of the presidential initiative for justice administrators to be elected by direct citizen vote; yesterday, judges and magistrates from Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Sonora and Aguascalientes also stopped working.
In Jalisco, some 3,000 workers joined the mobilization, including 120 judges and magistrates from Circuit 3. They symbolically closed the mailbox for paperwork and declared a strike; in addition, they closed the side of Periférico Oriente in the Judicial City of Zapopan and figuratively closed the courts in Puente Grande, next to the penitentiary complex of the same name.
Likewise, dissatisfied employees from Guerrero and Morelos presented their general declaration of strike.
Meanwhile, union members of the PJF in Ciudad Juárez and the capital of Chihuahua clarified that they are not participating in the work stoppage, but did not go to work yesterday, arguing that their workplaces are closed and only those who had to be on duty for urgent cases went. In turn, employees of the Judicial Branch of the state of San Luis Potosí showed solidarity with their federal counterparts, while in Tlaxcala, protesters blocked the Santa Ana-Puebla highway.
