Overview
- The national consultation produced a majority “no” vote against the negotiated 6.8% package, which split 2.9% as a direct increase to the salary tabular and 3.9% in prestaciones.
- About 282,000 workers, roughly 60% of eligible voters, took part in the secret ballot held on Wednesday, a turnout the CFCRL reported as preliminary.
- Following the vote, the IMSS and the SNTSS installed a mesa de trabajo to reopen talks but have not committed to any new numeric offer while Robledo evaluates options.
- Disident worker groups that reject the union leadership continue to press for at least a 10% direct raise, demand pension and hiring changes, and have called a national march for October 21.
- Officials insist core medical services are operating and warn any new deal must fit federal budget limits even as the institute studies a broader program that could include salary adjustments, regularizing plazas and supply fixes.