Alexia Villaseñor
La Jornada newspaper
Monday, September 15, 2025, p. 17
One of the strategies of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) to strengthen movement will be to increase the power of call and teaching participation through a “intense” brigadeo, because “otherwise we run the risk of obtaining the same result with the irreducible position of the federal educational authorities,” said Filiberto French, leader of Section 34 of Zacatecas.
A little more than three months of concluding the national strike together with the plant in the Zocalo of Mexico City, the CNTE began the diagnosis of its fighting day, which “evidenced that the government, although another color is to be seen, continues to make the same policy,” said the dissident teaching during the installation of the Representative National Assembly (ANR) – the first to be carried out after said mobilization–.
Although the intention of this meeting was to analyze the scope that the movement had during May and June, as well as recognize the successes and deficiencies of the protest, they did not achieve great advance because some sections did not finish their own valuations, so they agreed to concentrate on October 3 on a National Balance Assembly.
Indispensable, reinstatement of negotiation tables
The purpose will be to identify the areas of opportunity, that is, “what we needed or what we should improve, but also the strengths or aspects that were positive and were successful,” the leaders Pedro Hernández, of section 9 of Mexico City, and Filiberto Frausto, in separate interviews, agreed.
Meanwhile, the teacher Pedro Hernández announced that in the following action plan his main demand will continue to be the abrogation of the Law of the Institute of Social Security and Services of State Workers (ISSSTE) of 2007.
The site will continue to the federal government to reinstate the negotiating table with the Single Negotiation National Commission, “since from the July school break there was no communication.” In addition, to demand the continuity of tripartite tables, since in only some sections they have been carried out with their respective state administrations, such as Oaxaca, Chiapas, Zacatecas and Mexico City, although “the advances remain insufficient to meet local demands,” he said.
In issues such as the basification of places and resources for scholarships, the intervention of federal authorities is needed, therefore, said section 9, the negotiating table is required with federal executive officials.
