Tornel Workers Ask for President Sheinbaum's Intervention to Resolve Strike
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In March, striking workers were attacked on the picket line by an armed shock group who shot four workers.

This article by Jessica Xantomila and Jared Laureles originally appeared in the May 1, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. Workers from the Tornel tire factory demonstrated outside the Center for Contemporary Mexican Culture, while Mayor Sheinbaum met with union leaders, to request a meeting with her to discuss resolving the strike, which has lasted more than two months.

After marching and participating in a Labor Day rally in the Zócalo, the group of 400 Tornel workers moved towards the Cultural Center, located in Leandro Valle, and complained that they were not invited to the meeting with the president.

The protesters were attended to by the head of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration (CFCRL), Alfredo Domínguez Marrufo, and the Undersecretary of the Interior, César Yáñez, to whom they reiterated the need to have a meeting with the head of the Executive branch.

“What we wanted was for the President to listen to us, because, frankly, the boss didn’t want to compromise with you at all,” said Gerardo Meneses, general secretary of the National Union of Workers of the Tornel Rubber Company.

He also requested a meeting with the Secretary of Labor, Marath Bolaños. “We already went to the Federal Center, and the company just walked away from the table and left us sitting there, because there’s no legal mechanism to compel them to meet with us,” he emphasized.

Domínguez Marrufo asked for time to “make the necessary arrangements again” to engage in dialogue with the parties. “We don’t want this to turn into a strike like the one at Monte de Piedad, which has lasted seven months. It hasn’t been easy,” he said.

Meneses responded that they have been waiting for a call to meet again for some time, to which the official acknowledged that it is because Alejandro Salafranca, head of the Decent Work Unit, “has not received a response from the directors, the proposal was offered to them.”

“We need to meet again,” Domínguez pointed out, “and we need to convince them that we need to reopen that plant, because both sides are losing.”

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