Ángeles Cruz Martínez
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, p. 14
A new protest by IMSS-Bienestar workers took place yesterday at the organization’s headquarters in Mexico City. Temporary and recently hired employees from Guerrero, Veracruz and Oaxaca came to demand payment of salaries that they are owed for up to 12 fortnights. They did not receive a bonus or a year-end food card and in several cases there is no certainty about their employment status either.
The above is part of the problem recognized by IMSS-Bienestar, still without a solution. Patience is not enough to cover our needs or the debts we already have.
said those affected. Some people resigned from the defunct Health Institute for Wellbeing (Insabi) with the promise that they would obtain a basic position in IMSS-Wellbeing and Now it turns out that the places were not authorized
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This has happened with newly hired doctors and nursing staff in various entities, some of whom were in the country’s capital last December. They pointed out that in their affiliated entities they signed the personnel movement format, with which as of September 2024 their hiring to provide medical services to people without social security was formalized.
Those affected claim that although they have complied with the imposed labor demands, they were victims of violations of all their labor rights. We spent Christmas without money, while the officials went on vacation with their salary and bonus
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They even commented on the case of a doctor who is seven months pregnant and has not been able to access medical care at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), since to register she must present a copy of her last pay stub. He doesn’t have it, because he doesn’t receive his salary either.
The irregularities in working conditions are varied. There is the case of nursing graduate Hilda Marcelo Hernández, who worked at the Ahuatitla Abajo health center, Chicontepec, Veracruz, until October 30, 2024.
He resigned from his temporary position of trust to be able to participate in the electronic competition for a position at the Benito Juárez health center, in the Veracruz municipality of the same name. Although she received notification that she was accepted, her name did not appear in the database, so the medical unit authorities denied her access.
The affected person assured that her position is still valid in her previous health center, so she requests her reinstatement, but so far no authority has given her a response.
The protesters arrived at the agency’s offices in the Barranca del Muerto area in Mexico City at 8 in the morning. After several hours, they were received by Ramón Moisés Camino, Carlos Martínez Robles and Mayra García Hernández, among other IMSS-Bienestar officials, who signed a document in which they promised to cover pending salaries and economic benefits, no later than the next 10 February, as well as the regularization of employment contracts.
