Joel Ayala Almeida

Joel Ayala Almeida was a Mexican trade unionist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was the president of the from 1998 until his death.
Ayala Almeida served several terms in Congress, both in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate.

Life

Joel Ayala Almeida was born in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, in 1946. After earning a degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he began his political and trade-union career with the National Union of Workers of the Secretariat of Health. Between 1995 and 1998 he served as that union's general secretary.
In 1998 he was elected president of the FSTSE, an umbrella organization for state workers' unions. He remained in that position until his death in Mexico City on 27 January 2025, shortly after he was sworn in for a further six-year term in December 2024.
Ayala Almeida died in Mexico City on 27 January 2025, at the age of 78.