Regarding yesterday’s strike by workers from the Tax Administration Service (SAT) arguing that there are no basic working conditions, President Claudia Sheinbaum assured that they are asking for demands that cannot be met, for example, they cannot be given private medical services.
“There are very few workers, there are demands that cannot be met, because there is no public servant who has private medical expenses, nor the president, and we will see if there is a request that can be met and they are there in dialogue,” Sheinbaum explained during his morning conference.
Some SAT workers carried out a strike because they assured that there are no basic working conditions such as cleaning, bathrooms, toilet paper, elevators, as well as the imposition of disproportionate collection goals.
Employees of the collection offices located on Avenida Hidalgo and Paseo de la Reforma, in Mexico City, as well as others in Chihuahua, Celaya, Guadalajara and Zapopan, also reported that there is a lack of personnel, long hours, assignment of positions due to favoritism and the cancellation of the salary increase that was granted on these dates.
The workers also denounced in a petition addressed to the director of the agency, Antonio Martínez Dagnino, workplace harassment, coercive supervision and imposition of disproportionate goals, which contravene principles of dignity, respect and labor justice.
Sheinbaum said that they are going to review the issue of the lawsuits but from the outset it is not easy to increase the salary of a few government workers.
“It is going to be reviewed, in the Government there are salary tabulators, so it is not easy to raise one worker from an institution if not all of them are raised, right? We are looking at the possibility of reclassifying, some options are being looked at, but the director of the SAT or his team has to enter into dialogue with these workers, who are really very few,” he mentioned.
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