Teachers from Puerto Vallarta and Jalisco’s Costa Norte region marched along Avenida Francisco Medina Ascencio on Thursday, June 11, in support of national CNTE demands over pensions, wages, and labor conditions.
The march began in the hotel-zone area and moved toward Puerto Vallarta City Hall, where participants planned an informational rally. Local reporting from the route said Municipal Transit officers were present to help manage traffic on one of the city’s main north-south corridors.
The immediate local impact was on movement through Medina Ascencio, the avenue used by drivers, buses, taxis, and airport traffic between downtown, the hotel zone, Marina Vallarta, and Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport. No official crowd estimate was available in the reports reviewed by PVDN.
The protest brought a national teachers’ dispute to Puerto Vallarta. The Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, known as the CNTE, has been pressing the federal government to repeal the 2007 ISSSTE law, revise pension rules, and improve teacher pay.
José Ignacio Vallejo Montes, identified as a secondary school teacher in Puerto Vallarta, said that Costa Norte teachers joined the march to support the national movement.
“We are supporting the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación in its struggle that began on May 25,” Vallejo Montes said in the local report. “At this moment, the Costa Norte region supports the repeal of the 2007 law and dignifying teachers’ salaries, among other things.”
He also described the action as a march and rally without violence. A second local account reported that teachers from Puerto Vallarta and nearby Costa Norte municipalities marched peacefully to Medina Ascencio to support the CNTE’s national demands.
The pension issue is not only a teachers’ issue, although teachers are the most visible group in the current protest. Under the ISSSTE individual-account system, federal public-sector workers who began contributing to ISSSTE on or after April 1, 2007, or who chose that system, are covered under the post-2007 retirement regime.
CNTE members argue that the 2007 system weakened retirement security for teachers and other public workers. Federal officials have not agreed to repeal the law. The federal government said earlier this month that its dialogue table with CNTE remained open, while ISSSTE officials have proposed changes such as a public pension insurer rather than a full repeal of the 2007 law.
Jalisco’s education authorities had already scheduled distance-learning activities for June 11 because of World Cup planning in the state. The state school-calendar adjustment also lists remote activities for June 18, June 23, and June 26 tied to World Cup matches in Guadalajara.
The bigger question for Puerto Vallarta is whether Costa Norte teachers will continue local actions on regular school days, and whether future demonstrations will return to Medina Ascencio. PVDN has previously reported that protests on Medina Ascencio can quickly affect airport access, hotel-zone traffic, bus routes, and cross-town travel.
The local march also connects Puerto Vallarta to the wider CNTE mobilization PVDN has been tracking as Mexico entered World Cup week. Earlier coverage noted that teacher protests had become a travel-watch issue, especially in Mexico City and other World Cup-related locations.