Overview
- Workers participating in a union-run consultation on Wednesday voted down a jointly negotiated 6.8% package that split into 2.9% to the salary tabulator and 3.9% in prestaciones, with a preliminary turnout of about 282,000 voters.
- Hours after the result, President Claudia Sheinbaum instructed IMSS director Zoé Robledo to reopen talks and IMSS and the SNTSS formally installed a mesa de trabajo to design a new proposal.
- IMSS officials say the renegotiation will consider a broader program that could include larger salary adjustments and regularization of plazas while stressing any offer must respect the institute’s budget limits.
- Dissident worker groups are pressing for at least a 10% increase to tabular pay, question union leadership legitimacy, and have called a national march for October 21 that they say will continue until core demands are met.
- IMSS maintains core medical services are operating normally for now, but the vote and ongoing mobilizations raise the risk of future localized disruptions and highlight why tabular pay matters for pensions and AFORE contributions.