Overview
- Union organizers said more than 20,000 educators in Zacatecas walked off the job in a national 48-hour action pressing to abrogate the current ISSSTE law.
- Teachers marched from the old railway station to the state Congress for a rally highlighting their demands, according to local union representatives.
- Participants voiced support for rural normalista students holding a sit-in at the state Education Secretariat after a reported mass food-poisoning incident tied to food supplied to dormitories.
- Organizers announced they will move protests to highways and toll booths on Friday to allow free passage for drivers, without ruling out temporary blockades.
- Local complaints include the Education Secretariat citing a legal vacuum to deny duty changes for teachers with chronic or terminal illnesses, while at the national level the CNTE set up a sit-in near San Lázaro in Mexico City and said it would not block capital roads.