LatinNews Daily - 16 May 2024

*Mexico’s Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) teachers’ union, has gone on strike over a pay increase announced by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Obrador announced a 10% pay increase for teachers on 15 May to mark the country’s national day of the teacher, bringing teachers’ monthly salary to M$17,635 (US$1,054) which he said was a 47.5% increase since the start of his term in December 2018. He also announced other benefits for teachers, such as improved access to healthcare, better salaries, and turning temporary positions into full-time roles. However, the CNTE has rejected the announced wage hike and announced a national, undefined period of strike, taking to the streets in Mexico City (CDMX) in protest. In contrast, Alfonso Cepeda Salas, secretary general of Mexico’s largest teachers’ union Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE), was present in the national palace when López Obrador announced the salary increase, telling the press it was “very acceptable”.

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