Sant Cruz IMC: Oaxacan Teachers Reject Return to School: SNTE Still on Strike!
Questions about the process and manner in which Union leadership initiated a controversial referendum to return to work led to a rejection of the ‘consulta’ and the continuation of the five-months-and-running teachers strike.
Prensa Latina: Mexico: Oaxaca School Year Unknown
Mexico, Oct 23 (Prensa Latina) Three days of consultations, a general assembly plus clashes with the teacher s union surround the teachers strike in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Detroit Free Press: MEXICO CITY: Teachers refuse to return
MEXICO CITY: Teachers refuse to return
The teachers union in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca rejected a plan Sunday to return to classes today and end a five-month strike. Delegates representing 70,000 workers decided to throw out a vote held last week showing that most teachers wished to return. Teachers will vote again this week, officials said. The conflict began as a teachers’ strike over pay and working conditions in May. It has since broadened into a coalition of more than a dozen groups. Some objected that union leader Enrique Rueda had failed to make the resignation of the state’s governor, Ulises Ruiz, a condition for returning to class. Ruiz is accused of rigging the 2004 election to win office and sending armed thugs against his opponents.
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