Starting Monday, the 19th of this month, elementary school teachers who are members of various unions will remain on an indefinite strike in Baja California, seeking to demand a salary increase from the State and Federal Secretariats of Education.
The national strike was announced by the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), and other unions are expected to participate, including those from sections 2 and 37 of the SNTE.
Marco Antonio Pacheco Peña, state coordinator of the CNTE, announced that the rally point in Tijuana will be the Carmen Serdán Elementary School in the Guaycura neighborhood, but it could extend to the offices of the Secretariat of Education, ISSSTE, Abelardo L. Rodríguez Airport, and U.S. international border crossings.
She explained that one of her demands is that teachers' salaries be increased from 7,000 pesos to 14,000 pesos per month so they can live decently, especially in that region where basic needs and utilities are expensive, as is rent, which is paid in dollars.
She added that another demand is for President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to avoid the 2007 ISSSTE reform, which mandates that teachers must retire after 28 years of service and teachers after 31, as well as regularizing the pay of interim, pensioned, and retired teachers.