Parents and teachers demand payment of back wages

 Tijuana, February 3.- Parents and teachers demonstrated in front of the state Secretariat of Public Education and the Institute for Sustainable Mobility (Imos) to protest the lack of payment of salaries to temporary workers and bonuses for teachers, and to demand the return to classes.

They rejected the version of Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda and Education Secretary Gerardo Solís Benavides that the debts had been settled, arguing that the situation had forced the suspension of classes.

Teacher Juana Zavala Álvarez pointed out that the debts exist and noted that although the problem is less common, she considered it "inhumane" that the State Government is not fulfilling its obligations.

"It's not true—that the teachers were paid—at my school, the physical education teacher hasn't been paid. Another teacher was owed eight paychecks and is still owed some bonuses... it's not true that they've paid. I think they—the governor and the Secretary of Education—are misinformed," he emphasized.