Articles from Mexico
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Standards and working conditions 15 May 2026 Education support personnel in public education in Mexico
Francisco González Mena
Mexico is one of the twenty-seven countries that form part of Education International in North America and the Caribbean. Mexico’s national union of education workers, the SNTE, is one of the world’s largest, with a total membership of 1.6 million active workers and 1 million retired workers. Of the former,...
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Climate action and literacy 12 May 2026 Mexico: SNTE campaigns to defend public education, peace, and sustainability
Mexico’s SNTE education union, affiliated to Education International (EI), is pursuing a comprehensive communication strategy. The approach reinforces the union’s role as a social actor committed to defending labour rights, public education, and major causes for Mexican society and the world at large.
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Union renewal and development 25 November 2025 Mexico: UNESCO celebrates teachers in recognition of their efforts to foster peace
Teachers from the SNTE (National Education Workers’ Union), affiliated to Education International, received international recognition for their leadership in educating generations of students committed to harmonious coexistence and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. The ceremony took place at the UNESCO head office in Mexico, in the framework of the peace...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 May 2025 Mexico: A 10% salary increase and an additional week of vacation in recognition of teachers’ invaluable contribution to the nation
On May 15, Teachers’ Day in Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced a significant salary raise of 10% and an additional week of vacation for the country’s teaching workforce. The new measures are the result of constructive and open social dialogue between the government and the National Union of Education...
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Leading the profession 25 April 2025 Mexico: Education, labour rights, and trade unionism are key to building the future
“Labour rights, trade unionism, and education are key to building the future of society”, stressed David Edwards, General Secretary of Education International (EI), during his recent visit to Mexico.
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Climate action and literacy 21 February 2025 Mexico: Caring for water, like education, is everyone's task
In a country where water scarcity is becoming an increasingly pressing issue, the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (National Union of Education Workers-SNTE) has taken a proactive stance. The union's campaign, ¡El agua es vida, el agua se agota! (Water is life, Water runs out!), launched in 2024,...
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Standards and working conditions 7 February 2025 Academic freedom at risk: the view from North America
David Robinson
To fulfil their mission of preserving, sharing, and advancing knowledge, higher education institutions must ensure that academic staff enjoy academic freedom. Academic freedom isn’t a special perk or privilege. Rather, it’s a necessary condition for the job. It is a professional and contractual right ensuring that in their teaching, research,...
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Democracy 26 September 2024 Mexico: teachers unite for peace
On the occasion of International Day of Peace, on 21 September, the SNTE, an affiliate of Education International (EI) in Mexico, launched a permanent campaign under the heading “Arm yourself with valour for a culture of peace!” (¡Ármate de valor por una cultura de paz!), to promote peace and non-violence...
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Standards and working conditions 14 February 2024 Securing dignity: Mexico's pension reform initiative supports teachers and public sector workers
Education International’s affiliate in Mexico, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) has voiced its support for a Mexican government proposal to reform the pension system for state workers. This reform proposal, put forward by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the Chamber of Deputies, signifies a pivotal move...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 26 January 2024 Educators ready to play an active role in transforming education in North America and the Caribbean
“Our activities here together these next few days are varied, but our purpose is fundamental – to reflect and learn from each other and to plan ways to encourage our members to play an active role in transforming education across this vast and varied region.” This was the call by...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 24 October 2023 Go Public! Leading further and higher education and research for the common good
The 12th International Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, co-hosted by Education International and its member organisation Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE), is taking place in Mexico City from October 24 to the 26.
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Leading the profession 1 August 2023 SNTE alerts more than two million and a half students about the risk of using drugs
Through a broad program structured by the teacher's organization, headed by Alfonso Cepeda Salas, General Secretary, it was possible to inform and reflect with students from secondary and upper middle education, on the risk of addictions as well as the importance of physical and emotional health care.
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Standards and working conditions 9 March 2023 Mexico: together we school
Job security has become one of the main achievements of the SNTE education workers union in Mexico. Thanks to the permanent programme for granting tenure to teachers agreed on with the federal government over 800,000 teaching positions have been regularised throughout the country in recent months.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 February 2023 We are education! Successful trade union strategies in Mexico
Alfonso Cepeda Salas
The Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) is one of the biggest education unions in the world. It currently represents more than 1.5 million active members at all levels of education and 700,000 retired teachers. Its mission is to defend public education and protect the rights of education...
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Standards and working conditions 30 January 2023 Education unions across the world mobilise to Go Public and Fund Education
On 24 January, Education International marked the International Day of Education by launching its new global campaign: Go Public! Fund Education. The campaign is an urgent call for governments to fully fund public education and to value, respect, and pay teachers and education workers as the indispensable professionals at the...
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Union growth 17 August 2022 Mexico: Better conditions for SNTE pensioners and more certainty for workers: ACS
The Mexican education workers’ union, the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE), and the Secretary of State for Welfare are to set up a special programme to improve conditions for the organisation’s retirees and pensioners.
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Standards and working conditions 28 March 2022 Mexico: Ensuring equity and raising the status of teachers high on the education agenda for 2022
The SNTE (National Education Workers’ Union) has submitted its 2022 National List of Demands to Mexico’s Public Education Secretariat (SEP) for review.
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Standards and working conditions 21 January 2022 Mexico: priority vaccination for education workers
On 8 January, the rollout of the COVID-19 booster vaccine for education workers began in Mexico.
Mexico: priority vaccination for education workers