From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 2, 2024, p. 11
The general secretary of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) and senator for Morena, Alfonso Cepeda Salas, announced that in the coming days all the general secretaries of the country’s union sections will meet with the secretary of Public Education (SEP) , Mario Delgado Carrillo, in order to present their demands for each entity.
In the V extraordinary plenary session of section 16 of Jalisco, he assured that the largest union in Latin America He does not limit himself to asking, he always comes with proposals
as happens, he stated, in the demand to disappear the System Unit for the Career of Teachers (Usicamm).
This is, he stated before hundreds of Jalisco teachers, a felt demand from educators, and that Thanks to the will of the president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, and the dedication of the SNTE, a reform of the General Law of the System for the Career of Teachers is about to be achieved
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He reported that There is already a bipartite SEP-SNTE commission that is reviewing the proposals we prepared; We made a proposal A and a proposal B. We are making good progress, I think it will not take long before we have an initiative ready to review the Legal Department of the Government of the Republic so that it can then be sent to one of the two chambers of the federal congress.
Cepeda Salas highlighted that the SNTE has the support of 12 fellow federal deputies ready to fight, and in the Senate, we are constantly lobbying to understand why it is urgent to reform this law that has done so much damage to us.
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In his message, the official expressed his confidence that during the current six-year term the most heartfelt demands of the teaching profession will be resolved
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He stressed that as a representative legal and legitimate of education workers at the national level
the SNTE maintains an open dialogue and permanent negotiations with top-level federal officials to respond to pending issues.
