Due to the drop in sales, General Motors will paralyze its plant in Santa Fe again
The automotive company General Motors announced that it will paralyze its Santa Fe plant again next week.
That factory, which had reopened in March after two months of being stopped, closed again between March 27 and April 14, and will now stop its activity again next week, between April 22 and 26.
With a 23% drop in production during the first quarter as a result of falls in sales and exports, the automotive sector is one of the most complicated due to the slowdown in economic activity that the entire industry is going through.
And companies, anticipating that the recession may last longer, are already reducing their workforces.
The first to open a voluntary retirement program was Toyota and now the General Motors plant in Santa Fe is also joining in, which employs just over 1,200 workers.
When it reopened in March, after a pause that lasted practically the entire summer, it did so with 85% of its staff (about 900 people) while the rest, just over 200, continued to be suspended, collecting 79% of their salaries.
Located in the town of Alvear, the Chevrolet Tracker sports utility vehicle comes out of the factory. Until the end of the year it was also assembling the Cruze.
The suspension of activities and the opening of withdrawals were confirmed by the company to the Santa Fe press, although the company did not provide figures on the number of operators for whom this option was available.
Before GM, Toyota, the country’s main vehicle manufacturer, opened a voluntary retirement program for 400 of its 8,500 workers (4% of the total).
The objective is to compensate for the drop in activity generated by the lower export of Hilux pick-ups and SW4 all-terrain vehicles to Colombia, Chile and Peru.
Renault, for its part, decided not to renew the contracts of 270 of its workers, who in turn represent 15% of the total at the Santa Isabel factory in Córdoba, where just under 1,900 people worked until March. (NA)
