Clashes between police and teachers leave teachers dead in Mexico

Mexico Says Force Will Be Used Against Striking Teachers

The Teachers and Principals Trade Union Collective organised a media briefing on Tuesday where they expressed views on their salary anomalies. Chairman of the All island Graduate Teachers Union, A.P. Bandusena pointed out that teachers have been receiving low wages for a long period of time and through the 2006 circular, the position of teachers was downgraded from the executive class to the secondary class, while the 2016/3 circular cemented this. “This is a great injustice done to graduate teachers”, charged the chairman who went on to state that these deformities must be rectified. He stated that the present government ...

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Mexican teachers block shopping malls, streets, train tracks

The teachers also blocked streets on Wednesday to demand authorities free two union leaders arrested last week on money laundering and other charges. The teachers oppose mandatory evaluations enacted under Mexico's education reform, and have staged ...

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Mexican teachers block shopping malls, streets, train tracks

The teachers also blocked streets on Wednesday to demand authorities free two union leaders arrested last week on money laundering and other charges. The teachers oppose mandatory evaluations enacted under Mexico's education reform, and have staged ...

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Mexico vows to crack down on teachers union strike protests

Teachers from Mexico’s CNTE union have pledged to increase their protest actions after the government arrested several of their leaders, including a call for a massive demonstration in Mexico City on Friday June 17. Meanwhile, Renato Sales Heredia ...

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Detained in Mexico Convoy of Teachers Protesting Education Reforms

16 de junio de 2016, 13:34Mexico, Jun 16 (Prensa latina) A convoy of 32 buses and over 1,000 teachers from Chiapas was arrested today when heading to the capital to reinforce the protests against education reform. Teachers from sections 7 and 40 of the ...

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Mexican Teachers Face 'Military Offensive' as Strike Continues

At least 24 more trade unionists from the CNTE teachers union in Oaxaca have outstanding arrest warrants and could be detained at any time, a spokesperson for Mexico's attorney general announced Monday. Renato Sales Heredia, national security commissioner ...

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Mexican Teachers Take the Streets to Protest Neoliberal Reform

Striking teachers have pledged to paralyze the city in order to force the government to eliminate the evaluations clause contained in the reform as well as the release of the union’s leaders arrested last week in Oaxaca, considered "political prisoners."

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Mexican teachers protest over reform, arrests

Mexico City (AFP) - Thousands of Mexican teachers from a radical union marched in Mexico City to protest an education reform and the arrest of two of their leaders. The demonstration along Mexico City's main boulevard capped days of protests in ...

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Mexican teachers protest over reform, arrests

Thousands of Mexican teachers from a radical union marched in Mexico City to protest an education reform and the arrest of two of their leaders. The demonstration along Mexico City's main boulevard capped days of protests in impoverished southern regions ...

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Mexican teachers protest over reform, arrests

Mexico City (AFP) - Thousands of Mexican teachers from a radical union marched in Mexico City to protest an education reform and the arrest of two of their leaders. The demonstration along Mexico City's main boulevard capped days of protests in ...

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Mexican teachers protest over reform, arrests

Mexico City (AFP) - Thousands of Mexican teachers from a radical union marched in Mexico City to protest an education reform and the arrest of two of their leaders. The demonstration along Mexico City's main boulevard capped days of protests in ...

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexican-teachers-protest-over-reform-arrests-035025400.html

 

World Organizations Condemn Repression Against Mexican Teachers

demanding the release of leaders who were arrested last week and currently face what they consider “wrongful convictions." “We think that the authorities must commit to dialogue, recognizing the just demands of the teachers' movement, and not to force ...

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Clashes erupt over education reform in Oaxaca

and the government has already said more than 4,000 teachers across four states will be dismissed. Just one week ago, the Mexican government arrested dissident teachers' union head Ruben Nunez over alleged corruption and money laundering within the ...

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Mexican teachers protest against reform, arrests

Thousands of Mexican teachers from a radical union marched in Mexico City on Friday to protest an education reform and the arrest of two of their leaders. The demonstration along Mexico City’s main boulevard capped days of protests in impoverished ...

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http://www.gulf-times.com/story/498581/Mexican-teachers-protest-against-reform-arrests

 

Clashes erupt over education reform in Oaxaca

and the government has already said more than 4,000 teachers across four states will be dismissed. Just one week ago, the Mexican government arrested dissident teachers' union head Ruben Nunez over alleged corruption and money laundering within the ...

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Mexican Police Kill 3 in Clashes with Striking Oaxaca Teachers

Teachers from the dissident CNTE union had set up the blockade as part of protests over an education reform implemented by President Enrique Peña Nieto and the arrest of several of the unions' leaders over the past week. In a press conference from the ...

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Clashes between police, teachers leave 4 dead in Mexico

The radical union, which goes by the initials CNTE, is opposed to the mandatory testing of teachers as part of the government's sweeping education reform and is also protesting the arrest of union leaders on money laundering and other charges. Sunday's ...

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Mexico: Clashes between police and teachers leave 4 dead

The radical union, which goes by the initials CNTE, is opposed to the mandatory testing of teachers as part of the government’s sweeping education reform and is also protesting the arrest of union leaders on money laundering and other charges.

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Clashes between police, teachers leave 4 dead in Mexico

The radical union, which goes by the initials CNTE, is opposed to the mandatory testing of teachers as part of the government's sweeping education reform and is also protesting the arrest of union leaders on money laundering and other charges. Sunday's ...

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http://www.newstimes.com/news/crime/article/Clashes-between-police-teachers-leave-4-dead-in-8312113.php

 

Mexican labor union clash leaves 3 dead, 45 injured

Last weekend, police arrested the leader of the local teachers' union for alleged corruption, redoubling government efforts to impose its authority on an education reform that has sparked months of protests across the country.

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