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Mexico's SNTE urges education secretary to speed up teacher career reform, pension viability
🇲🇽 Mexico /Elections & Politics

Mexico's SNTE urges education secretary to speed up teacher career reform, pension viability

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Mexico's National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) urged Education Secretary Mario Delgado to expedite a new career system for teachers, replacing the current USICAMM to ensure transparent and equitable processes.
  • SNTE also proposed reforms to the state pension system, presenting actuarial studies that demonstrate the financial viability of improving pensions and retirements for public service workers.
  • The union emphasized that negotiations should be conducted with legitimately elected SNTE leadership to effectively address teacher demands, including budget allocation and administrative procedures.

Mexico's National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) is pressing the federal government to accelerate the creation of a new teacher career system, aiming to replace the existing USICAMM. The union's national leader, Alfonso Cepeda Dalas, met with Education Secretary Mario Delgado Carrillo to advocate for a system that guarantees transparent and equitable processes, respecting labor rights. Cepeda Dalas called for sustained investment in education, national training programs, and guaranteed social security, alongside a commitment to achieving dignified wages.

The SNTE also presented a proposal for pension reform, backed by actuarial studies, asserting its financial viability to enhance pensions and retirements for state employees. Cepeda Dalas clarified that the union seeks reform, not abrogation, of the current system, understanding the existing financial landscape. He stressed the importance of direct dialogue with the SNTE's legitimately elected leadership to ensure effective responses to the teaching profession's demands.

We want genuine recognition where there is truly a teacher career system like the one the so-called educational reform took away from us, we want sustained investments in education, national training and updating programs, that social security is truly guaranteed for us, that this respectful dialogue continues and the commitment to achieve a dignified salary.

— Alfonso Cepeda DalasThe national leader of the SNTE stated the union's demands during a meeting with the Secretary of Public Education.

Regional SNTE leaders highlighted specific demands from their states, including sufficient budget allocation and streamlined administrative procedures for retroactive payments and permanent positions. They also requested intervention from the Ministry of Public Education to resolve issues with state authorities who do not always uphold federal agreements. The union seeks to strengthen institutional dialogue and provide effective solutions for educators across Mexico.

We are not talking about abrogation, we are not talking about repeal, we are talking about reform, because we understand the situation.

— Alfonso Cepeda DalasThe SNTE leader clarified the union's position on pension system reform.
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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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