The World - News from May 12, 1989

Striking teachers in Mexico have voted by a wide margin to return to the classroom and end a walkout that has kept 10 million students out of school, a union official said. The vote ended a three-week strike by a dissident faction of the pro-government teachers union to demand higher wages and protest alleged union corruption. An agreement between the union and the striking faction “was approved overwhelmingly” by the dissident teachers, the union official said. The National Education Workers’ Union and the dissident Democratic Coordinate agreed to accept a government offer of a 25% increase in wages and benefits and to adopt anti-corruption measures.