On March 16, 2022, the Automotive Cluster of
Guanajuato was present at the signing of the agreement between the Subsecretariat of
Labor and Social Welfare of the State of Guanajuato and the Panamericana Development
Foundation in Mexico. Through this agreement, efforts are combined
to improve working conditions in the automotive sector.
The signing took place at the facilities of the Labor
Conciliation Center of the State of Guanajuato, with the presence of Marco Antonio
Rodríguez Vázquez, Undersecretary of Labor and Social Welfare; Valeria Uribe
Robles, National Director of PADF in Mexico, and as an honorary witness, Engineer Rolando
Alaniz Rosales, Chairman of the Board of Group
León and the Automotive Cluster of Guanajuato.
This agreement will help "promote the generation,
compilation, standardization, consultation, and exchange of information related to
compliance with labor rights [...] The automotive sector in
Mexico generates more than $52 billion pesos annually, over 3% of the country's
gross domestic product, and supports more than 900,000 jobs; Guanajuato is one
of the three states that gather the largest number of companies in this sector
nationwide," according to official information from the State Government.