Overview

• About 3,000 outsourced cleaners resumed work Thursday after a 48–50 hour stoppage that included street blockades and disrupted services.
• Workers were told overdue quincena wages would begin to be dispersed by Friday, with some reports extending the window to Monday, and they warned they will halt work again if deposits do not land.
• Hospitals reported piled-up trash and medical waste, closed toilets and postponed surgeries due to unclean operating rooms, prompting infection concerns from patients’ families.
• The contractor, Limpieza Especializada Industrial y Hospitalaria, says government payments have been delayed since April, leading to late salaries and shortages of protective supplies like gloves and masks.
• Veracruz’s finance secretary said the dispute is outside the state payroll because the service is subcontracted, and the issue reached the presidential briefing where Claudia Sheinbaum asked IMSS-Bienestar chief Zoé Robledo to intervene.