# Tijuana Judicial Workers Seek New Union Amid Lack of Support
Workers from the Federal Judicial Branch (PJF) in Tijuana are seeking affiliation with a new union due to a perceived lack of support during a partial labor strike against proposed reforms to the organization. Jesús Daniel Meza Rayales, the provisional delegate of Sindicato Renovación, mentioned that the group is working to gather a majority of workers to facilitate a vote and elect a new union leader in Tijuana.
The call for a new union comes during the third week of partial strikes initiated on September 4, 2024. This movement protests the reforms being pushed by the new legislature of the Congress of the Union, which includes popular voting for ministers, judges, and magistrates, as well as the establishment of “faceless judges.”
National leader of Sindicato Renovación visited the Tijuana PJF facilities last week to offer affiliation to over 700 workers. Meza Rayales emphasized that joining the new group would not alter any current benefits or working conditions for the employees.
Throughout the strike, which gained traction in its first week, workers expressed frustration over the lack of support from their existing union. Judges and magistrates have also joined the strike, voicing similar discontent. “Our union leader in the city abandoned us; this movement started from the workers, and for that, our union deserted us,” Meza Rayales explained. The current secretary-general of the PJF workers’ union in Tijuana, Manuel Raul Ochoa Ruelas, has been criticized for not supporting the marches or the strike.
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