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Mexico City's Trolleybus Workers Took on Austerity and Won
Workers marched from their union's headquarters to the city's labor courts and pledged to strike should they need to. Photo: ATM
March 11, 2025 / Natascha Elena Uhlmann
The 1,970 rail, trolleybus, and cable car workers who make Mexico City run could go out on strike as soon as March 13.
Their union, the Tram Workers Alliance of Mexico (Alianza de Tranviarios de México, ATM), secured vital investments in green transportation and saved hundreds of jobs in a 2016 “Save the Trolleybus” campaign that brought public transit users into their funding fight.
Now workers want the uniforms and safety equipment that they’re owed under their contract but haven’t received in three years, as well as the tools they need to do their jobs: hydraulic jacks, pliers, and wrenches.
They also want more training. The city invested in a fleet of new electric trolleybuses following the “Save the Trolleybus” campaign, but many workers haven’t been trained in their upkeep. And they want system maintenance improvements—for example, staff mechanics have no means of re-treading tires as they wear down.
FULL story: https://labornotes.org/2025/03/mexico-city-trolleybus-workers-austerity
Anybody know IF they went on strike?