Overview
- Steus shut University of Sonora campuses and hung red-and-black strike flags Thursday after members voted to launch a de facto work stoppage.
- The move came after a labor court on Wednesday archived the union’s formal strike filing for failing to name the specific campuses where a walkout would occur.
- The union said Friday it filed an amparo, a court appeal in Mexico used to seek relief from a ruling, to revive the strike notice and give the walkout legal cover.
- The university offered targeted raises for the lowest six pay grades ranging from 12.89% at level 1 to 4.39% at level 6 and urged workers to return the facilities, arguing there is no valid strike notice.
- Classes and services are paused for tens of thousands of students in Sonora, while the academic union Staus declared an alert and, in a separate dispute, SUEUM in Michoacán authorized a possible April 20 strike.