Overview
- Protests escalated into partial strikes, camps and blockades in Mexico City and at least two dozen states after talks failed this week, with a sustained encampment on Paseo de la Reforma and multiple hospital-area closures.
- IMSS management says core medical services are running and that more than 400,000 staff attended posts, while workers say many administrative and outpatient functions have been restricted during the actions.
- Union leaders and IMSS proposed a 6.8% compensation package made up of 2.9% to salary and 3.9% in benefits and scheduled a union consultation for October 14 to ratify the offer.
- Dissident workers reject the 6.8% figure and demand a direct 10% salary raise plus the removal of SNTSS leader Rafael Olivos Hernández, and they have organized a national march for October 14 with allied unions planning to join.
- Beyond pay, protesters press for steady supplies of medicines and equipment, more hiring to fill vacant posts, and a return of prior pension arrangements, changes that would require federal legal reform and widen the stakes of the dispute.