Author: Ángel Magaña
Teachers Protest; More than 15 months without receiving salaries.
Mexicali
Wednesday, April 28th, 2017; Mexicali, B.C.
In Mexicali, more than two thousand teachers protested at the ISEP (Facilities of the State Educational System), in order to receive their payment. This affected their socioeconomic state, rights and time, as the teachers had 15 months without being paid.
“We have reached our limit of patience that we disposed in order to wait the government and educational authority to assign its resources to the teachers” – Eduardo Moreno Maldonado, General Secretary of the Delegation of el Valle de Mexicali. The protest started on Wednesday night when more than 300 teachers criticized the government's lack of will because all the
More than two thousand interim teachers have more than 15 months without salary. The Protest culminated almost at midnight after representatives of the Secretary of Government and the SETE signed a draft in which it establishes the payment of the past wages and the restitution of the salary of eight members of the state committee of the guild whom checks were suspended 15 months ago.
requirements demanded by the authorities at a
With this payment, the teachers will have the
negotiating table were met, but they didn’t even
motivation in order to realize every activity on
had filled out the payment formats.
their respective school. Also, it will help the
The agreement includes respect for promotions and the right of interim workers to obtain the base.
education to continue its development without compromising the students’ future. 16