The impact of BlackBerry - Newspaper AM

María Hernández Saavedra is one of about 4000 people who worked in Jabil’s plant in Zapopan, Jalisco, in the manufacture of BlackBerry smartphones. A late October became unemployed.

She recalls that when he began to reduce the production of devices for the Canadian brand, workers laid them to do other work until the day came that they were informed that would be left in October to join the team.

“We explained that BlackBerry would no longer follow and they would do the assessments at 100 percent,” said the former employee, who added that there were settlements under the law and if he had to file a complaint with the Office of Labor Defender.

Since 2008, Jabil maquilaba BlackBerry gadgets. Following the announcement of the Canadian company last September it would cut up to 40 percent of its global workforce labor, layoffs in this plant Zapopan began to take shape before the reduction in orders.

In the third quarter of 2013, BlackBerry reported losses of nearly a billion dollars worldwide.

Hernández Saavedra, 42, a mother of four children, he studied Electronics Technician. Your stay at Jabil was little more than six months in the area of ??diagnosis.

worked weekends, from 6 pm to 6 am, hours he liked because he had time to live with his family, but said that the conditions were not the best.

“The atmosphere was very tense, when you were on the production line I knew that no human quality supervisors, left much to be desired . were talking to them and I just get changed to another area to assist you to stop, “he said.

Now, she works in the area of ??security and reception of a casino, but is confident that he can call any electronics company and pursue a career.

“The hardest thing was that I had a very different concept Jabil and realize that ultimately in Mexico blessed many laws are passed over, stop will treat you like you’re a human being, “he said.