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Labor Day in Mexico - 06.07.2007
By: Krillian
Posted: Jul 30 07
Witnessed: 10533 times
Regions: Mexico
Issues: Detention, Indigenous peoples
Tags: demonstration, Mexico, workersrights
This week, to inaugurate our regular posts from this date on, AiM covers the first days of May in Mexico City, dates filled with history for the Mexican comminuty. Since the end of the 1910 Mexican revolution, Mexicans have celebrated the workers struggle and the defense of workers rights.
This 1st of May many workers marched, from social organizations and independent unions of the working class, including electricians, firefighters and teachers. A second march was organized by members of “La Otra Campana” or “The Other Campaign,” a political initiative headed by the EZLN, also known as the Zapatistas from Chiapas, Mexico. This marched included sex workers, vendors from the Tepito neighborhood, young people, farmers from Atenco and other groups, that support the workers struggle and also demand the liberation of political prisoners in Mexico.
Many media outlets noted the absence of government authorities on this Labor Day, in contrast to previous years when there was an official march with Mexican government officials present.
The workers demonstrated their anger with the new labor politics, especially the reforms of the ISSSTE law (State Institute for Social Security for Workers) that were quickly approved in March of this year with no time for worker comment or input. Changes to ISSSSTE affect over 2 million workers and10 million people who receive health care and pensions from ISSSTE.
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