There will be more cuts in Jalisco for BlackBerry - The Economist

October 14, 2013 – 21:55

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Guadalajara, Jal. The dismissal of workers Jabil plant, installed in the municipality of Zapopan, a result of the global crisis on the Canadian BlackBerry, reach up to 3,500 employees, as Poppy said Lopez, coordinator of the Coalition of former employees and Electronics Industry Workers National (CETIEN), adding that there is a risk of further cuts in firms such as Flextronics, which also maquilaba the smart phone company.

Although the transnational has not provided official information about the Coalition assertion based on testimony from workers who are turning to the body in search of legal advice, so far more than 500 have been dismissed, but the number is increasing because “they have been closing complete production lines.”

“What we say workers who are coming to us is that the plant that assembles BlackBerry is fully closed and workers have been laying off slowly,” he said.

Lopez was interviewed after the event that carried thirty workers in transnational facilities to report alleged irregularities and violation of labor rights of the employees of Jabil, including “cheating” to reviewers to make them sign a waiver in lieu of paying the corresponding settlement.

“Jabil has resorted to making changes in the working conditions of workers to force them to sign the waiver, in addition to the harassment and discrimination-such as a reduction in the amount of integrated daily wage, shift change regardless of the situation of workers and changes to other areas of work, including other plant “, says the manifesto of workers.

“If employees do not accept or plant shift change us, threaten us that we must sign the waiver. Workers who have a fault, delay or disability are not liquid at 100% and this is against the law. “

MORE CUTS COULD COME

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coordinator warned also about the fear that at any moment begin layoffs at other companies such as Flextronics plant, which also maquilaba to BlackBerry.

Because the Coalition has not yet received workers laid off from that company, Lopez said he was unaware precisely how many projects are what the Canadian company maquilaba in Jalisco, however, “is expected to go on unemployment figures increase. “

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