Overview
- Workers and retirees rejected a 2.9% wage offer and set up camps and intermittent blockades in Mexico City and more than 20 states after a long government negotiation failed on October 8.
- A high‑visibility plantón on Paseo de la Reforma remained in place and dozens of other closures hit major arteries near hospitals in CDMX and the State of Mexico, causing traffic disruption for commuters.
- Organizers say they demand a direct 10% salary increase, steady supplies of medicines and consumables, more staff, pension and retirement reforms, and the removal of SNTSS leader Rafael Olivos Hernández.
- The Secretaría de Gobernación has urged return to dialogue and said there were no detentions, while the SNTSS condemned violence and called a national salary consultation for October 14 to let members vote on the union proposal.
- Longstanding shortages, unfilled posts and contested union rule changes underpin the unrest and could widen into a national paro if the October 14 consultation fails to satisfy rank‑and‑file demands.