Unions, Parents of Missing Students Call for Boycott of June Midterm Elections VideoNews.us
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Parents and classmates of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa hold posters with images of their missing loved ones after they erected an "anti-monument" in their memory this week. (AP/Marco Ugarte)

Relatives of 43 students who went missing last year, along with thousands of workers, marched in Mexico City Friday during Labor Day protests.

Unions of teachers, laborers, miners and electricians were among the groups demanding better salary and working conditions.

They gathered in front of the antimonument – a makeshift memorial that was spontaneously erected last Sunday by relatives of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa College who disappeared last September in Iguala.

Meliton Ortega, a spokesperson for the parents of the students, asked that the students be found as he emphasized that injustice in Mexico most affects the poor and humble workers.

More than 10,000 protesters gathered in the Zocalo, the main square of the city, to listen to march leaders.

Union leaders and the parents of the students issued a call to boycott the midterm elections to be held June 7.

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