The World - News from Nov. 2, 1988
A strike by workers at Mexico’s huge National Autonomous University shut down the institution, leaving more than 300,000 students locked out of classes. About 23,000 union members went on strike after rejecting a 10% wage increase offered by the university. Union officials are demanding a 50% increase. The National Autonomous University, Mexico’s largest, was hit by a three-week student strike in 1987 after administrators tried to implement a series of reforms.
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