This is the reason why the Stanley Black and Decker plant in Hermosillo, Sonora will close

The American company Stanley Black & Decker confirmed in recent days the definitive closure of the plant located in Hermosillo, Sonora, which will leave nearly five hundred workers affected after its liquidation.

The leader of the Confederation of Workers of Mexico in Hermosillo, Óscar Ortiz Arvayo confirmed that after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, the demand for the products of this company, which are tools for gardening and construction, was drastically reduced.

Ortiz pointed out that the production levels not only returned to those they had before the pandemic, but were reduced by more than 30 percent. Due to this, the corporation decided to close the facilities due to the low demand for the products they sell.

Regarding the current situation of the workers, the leader commented that most of them have already been liquidated and received a thank you bonus, but until the definitive closure of the company is carried out, about seventy people will remain who will carry out the shipments of the product that remains in the company.

He also told El Sol de Hermosillo that both the workers and the company agreed to hold job fairs with companies in which Stanley Black & Decker has a stake, in order to offer them an opportunity to join other businesses more quickly in the face of their liquidation.

Óscar Ortiz said that the products will be manufactured in the city of Nogales, which is why he denied the information that some media have shared about an alleged transfer to China.

On the other hand, the president of Index Sonora, Jesús Gámez García, stressed that the closure of the Hermosillo plant is an isolated event, determined by the company to readjust its activities as part of a business strategy to move its production to sites where it can continue to manufacture.

“The company has informed us that in 2023 it began a process of transformation of its business that involves making expansions, consolidations and adjustments in manufacturing and distribution sites,” he said.

Layoffs of less than 500 workers
The president of Index Sonora also commented that the workforce that will be laid off is not more than a thousand as previously stated, but that it is only 430 people who will stop working for his company.

Regarding the alleged transfer of the company to China, Jesús Gámez reported that it is a falsehood, since the production of this plant will be transferred to other strategic points to serve its clients. This is part of a process that the company began in 2023, in which it seeks to expand to move to places where it can develop its activities with greater benefit.

“I had heard that it had been said that it was going to China, it is also totally false. It is not 1,800 employees that have been cut, it was 430, and it is not going to China, it is going to different strategic points to also remember what service to our clients is,” he commented.

He also mentioned that the manufacturing sector will continue to generate jobs, as he said 1,800 have been created so far this year. He also said that of the 560 workers who provided their services at this plant, 430 have already been laid off, and the rest will remain until the pending processes are completed in the coming months until their contracts are terminated gradually.

It is expected that the Confederation of Mexican Workers in Hermosillo and the company will work together to integrate the people who will be laid off into other companies that collaborate with Stanley Black & Decker so that they can access a new job quickly.

Source: infobae