BlackBerry 3000 left jobless people in Jalisco - The Economist

January 13, 2014 – 19:26

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Patricia Romo / The Economist

Guadalajara, Jal. Between 800 and 1,000 workers in the technology company Jabil Circuit that “fought” dismissal, then decided to stop producing BlackBerry smartphones in their Jalisco and move all its maquila to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, now face problems of “change in conditions labor “.

Jorge Barajas, coordinator of the Centre for Study and Action (Cereal)-body defender of labor rights of workers-mail to The Economist said that of the approximately 4,000 workers who worked in the BlackBerry project 3,000 were dismissed , most during 2013.

“I finished the stage of layoffs and are now receiving complaints that those who were in the BlackBerry project are offering a new project, or rather, being forced to change their working hours by a 4×3 scheme,” said Jorge Barajas.

explained that with the new schedule, workers leave of working an eight-hour days for six days to change to a scheme in which, a week working only four days and the next few as three, but with 12 days hours.

“It is obvious that the majority does not suit the schedule change and are trying to either do respect the time they had settled or were under the law,” said coordinator Cereal.

added that “it is illegal and can not arbitrarily change the working conditions” at the agency, said last Friday sent a first statement the company to revise “case by case” in order to ensure respect for labor rights of workers.

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acknowledged, however, that “most of the dismissed workers have been paid according to law,” and that due to the arrival of new projects in the electronics industry to Jalisco, those affected by the cuts have been reinserted into other enterprises .

regard, the director of the Center for Economic Development and Tourism Zapopan, Ian Paul Otero, said the agency works in collaboration with other business units in the electronics sector in order to find an employment option for former employees of Jabil .

“They have not opened up the final figure (of layoffs) themselves are assessing how much ground can rearrange productively in other business units,” said Otero Vazquez.

Meanwhile, Poppy Lopez, coordinator of the Coalition of Workers and former workers of the National Electronics Industry (CETIEN) hereby informed until last October, the suspension of BlackBerry project and the end of the business relationship of the firm Canadian with Jabil Circuit, would be laying off about 3,500 workers after closing “complete production lines.”

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