Employees in IMSS-Bienestar try to close roads; They ask for respect for dialogue table

Ángeles Cruz Martínez

La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, July 24, 2025, p. 8

Members of the Independent Front of Health Workers (FIRAS) assigned to IMSS Welfare came yesterday to the offices of this agency, in South Insurgentes, in Mexico City, where they intended to close the road, in protest because at the dialogue table that was convened for 10 in the morning, the head of Administration and Finance, Christian Leslie García Romero was not present.

Elements of the capital police prevented them from obstructing vehicular circulation. They raised several dissatisfied, nurses and technical staff who had sat on the floor. In the struggle there were shoves and some blows.

The employees claimed that while the unionized who demonstrated last Tuesday in IMSS welfare they were attended to an office and listened to their demands, They received us in a winery and repress us. In the Covid-19 pandemic we were heroes and now they treat us as criminalsthey claimed.

The meeting with Flags was agreed on July 8, after a march and plant in front of the agency’s central offices, where three people also made a hunger strike.

The dissatisfied commented that on July 13, when President Claudia Sheinbaum made a work tour of Baja California Sur, her colleagues presented themselves at the official act with posters in which they captured their demands.

They assured that the president offered that they would be attended by García Romero and that when they went to the event they were received In a winery by officials of the coordination of labor relations.

In turn, IMSS Welfare reported that on July 8 it was agreed that yesterday’s dialogue table would be with public servants, headed by the labor relations area, which have attended the rest of the employees.