Overview
- Workers and retirees carried out protests in 12 states on Sunday that included marches, plantones and partial roadblocks but did not produce a reported, nationwide suspension of IMSS services.
- IMSS director Zoé Robledo said the institute fills about 94 percent of prescriptions and asked patients missing medicines to register at RecetaCompleta.gob.mx for a promised response within 36 hours.
- The contested 6.8 percent package combines a 2.9 percent raise to the salary tabular and 3.9 percent in benefits and is rejected by dissidents who demand roughly 10 percent direct salary increases and changes in union leadership.
- The Centro Federal de Conciliación y the Secretaría del Trabajo will supervise the secret, direct vote on October 14 that the IMSS says it will respect, and the result could calm or inflame protests.
- IMSS officials note the institution added about 109,000 workers since 2019 and expanded services like hemodialysis and transplants, a rapid growth that officials say improves care but raises logistical strain that can cause local disruptions such as the clinic cancellations reported in Guadalajara.