Canacintra Urges to Reopen Operations Next Monday

NOGALES, SONORA, MX – The border industry is expecting to start operations next Monday. In phases, they will begin with workers in manufacturing areas and later in the month with the workers in administrative areas.

Hipólito Sedano Ruiz, national vice president of the North Pacific region of Canacintra, indicated that one month after the closure of companies was ordered, the economic negative impact has been strong.

If the authorities order to postpone the activation of the industries for another month, it will be very harmful to the sector, he added.

“According to the Mexican Institute of Social Security statistics, there has been a very significant loss of jobs nationwide, more than 630,000 jobs lost,” he said.

In the case of Nogales there is no inventory of layoffs, he recognizes.

“Operating costs continue and there is no sale of products, and that affects any company,” he declared.

The executive added that the State Government would be the ones to approve the return of industrial employees to work, but until the time of this interview, they have not confirmed any dates.

Sedano Ruiz emphasized that the opening of companies would be done with all the necessary preventive actions to protect the health of workers.

“To be able to start in a staggered way; We would first start with production areas and then administrative areas as a second step, ’’