MEXICO STARTS. Half-hearted, manufacturers and suppliers begin
Being León and its area of influence the largest manufacturing pole in the country for footwear, materials and components, since June 1, several establishments began their activities with fewer personnel, rotating between morning and afternoon shifts, during the pandemic season.
The entrance to the factories is carried out with the distance required by protocol, the temperature of the operators is controlled and they are subjected to the disinfection of their footwear and clothing. In their workplaces they keep the corresponding distance and contacts are avoided. Within these conditions, according to the industrialists, they work at 30% of the productive capacity, with 30% of the staffing, depending on the surface of each establishment.
Beyond the urgency for the start of activities, according to the businessmen, they are in a situation of few orders, due to the generalized paralysis due to the pandemic, which had the footwear union among the most affected. Hopes are focused on the normalization of the commercial circuit and the decision and purchasing power of consumers, as the origin of the chain's operation.
In this regard, it is estimated that more than 30% of stores, shopping centers and other shoe sales points have begun to open their doors at the beginning of June.
According to sources from the Guanajuato Footwear Chamber, from the reopening of factories it is expected to recover in the short term 26 thousand jobs, out of the almost 80 thousand direct jobs that exist in the state of Guanajuato. Not without first rearming the workforce and solving the financial problems caused by the impasse due to the health crisis.
On the part of the supplier industry, according to the survey carried out by APIMEX, the representative entity, 50% of the associates will restart their work, while 25% face difficulties in falling sales, layoffs, illiquidity and indebtedness.
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