At Press Conference, Dissident Teachers Threaten Indefinite National Strike Ana Cecilia Mendez - Milenio
go to original April 4, 2013

Hundreds of teachers demonstrated in the southern city of Chilpancingo, Mexico, to protest the recent educational reforms. (EFE)

MEXICO CITY - After arriving at the Secretariat of Government Relations and before a negotiating committee entered the building, members of the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers (CNTE) threatened to initiate an indefinite national strike if the [already enacted] education reforms to Articles 3 and 73 of the Constitution are not stopped.

At a press conference, offered against the security fence placed around the Secretariat, members of the CNTE disqualified the government's decision to place Juan Diaz de la Torre as the new union leader, replacing Elba Esther Gordillo, saying that, "he does not represent the demands of the workers."

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