Unfortunate response from Sheinbaum: CNTE; insists on going on a national strike

Laura Poy and Alexia Villaseñor

La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, p. 11

Leaders of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) regretted the statements of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo about the lack of fiscal resources to meet the demands of the teaching. They stressed that the demand for the abrogation of the ISSSTE Law of 2007 It is not an occurrence or a new approach. It is a demand that we have been raising for years.

In an interview with The dayPedro Hernández Morales, general secretary of the dissident teaching of Mexico City, emphasized that the federal government He knows that what is in the background is to review the delivery of workers’ pensions to retirement fund administrators.

He recalled that with former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, more than 20 dialog tables were held and He was requested and explained why we demand that the disastrity of the ISSSTE of 2007 be abroke.

In the agreements of the Representative National Assembly (maximum management body of the CNTE) on April 11, coordinator leaders highlighted, It is clearly established the determination of the teaching base of exploding the national strike and installing a plant in the capital Zócalo, and in that frame.

They pointed out that another of the approved points is to participate in a form overwhelming In the march of Labor Day and deliver in the National Palace of its Petition Pliego 2025, in which demands such as Social Justice, Public Budget for Education and Health and Reinstallation of the ceased.

Hernández Morales indicated that the CNTE Understand that to abrogate the Law of the ISSSTE of 2007, a budget must be allocated to recover the Institute and the pensions of workers at the service of the State.

We know that it is a strong decision, but we will not stop insisting that we must enter the discussion of the AFORE, which are the ones that have worn with the pensions of the workers, and that there is a debt of state governments for more than 90 billion pesos to the ISSSTE, even of discounted quotas to the workers, and that this cannot remain in impunityhe said.