Deputy v Aguacateros, urges IMSS to engage all employees

Morelia, Michoacan.- are more than 25 thousand daily wage laborers working in avocado orchards without employment benefitsWithout Social Security, without counting, workers who do not work under similar conditions at the Green Gold Packing Plant or berry farming business in Michoacan.

Today a local deputy, Gabriella Cazares Whitefrom the caucus of the Labor Party, He encouraged the Mexican Social Security Institute to inspect and visit the packaging and orchards of avocado growers, to verify that workers were duly registered and registered with Social Security.

During his statement of reasons, he recalled that during the suspension of avocado exports to the United States, he demonstrated that the workers of one of the world’s richest and most powerful industries do not provide their workers with minimal benefits and protections.

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,Despite the fact that the export of avocados to Michoacán means the sale of a large amount of foreign exchange, the inequality situation is still evident (…) The area of ​​strawberries or berries is added, (…) its rows. occurs among the countless agricultural workers who do not even have good working conditions that guarantee that their health is protected or that their labor rights will be respected”, Thus Cazares Blanco pointed to the great Michoacan avocado entrepreneurs.

In its proposal, it calls on IMSS to submit a report to the full state Congress, at least annually, on the results of inspections and periodic home visits conducted to the establishments of owners of avocado production systems. to check That the workers are duly registered and enrolled in social security.

In the days of the suspension of avocado exports, daily wage workers came out on the Urupan-Paracho highway to ask “financial help“To all vehicles moving on the road, indicating that their payment is daily, that They don’t have a contract that covers them for non-working daysTherefore, they did not get economic resources during the closure of the industry.

The government of Michoacán, in a desire to ensure that the avocado industry does not slow down and employees are protected, in the month of March formalized the “signing of the Agreement for the Execution of Tasks in the Case of Employment Formalities”. During this 2022, event it was revealed that 9 out of 10 day laborers do not have minimum protection of their labor rights.

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With the signing of such an agreement, a massive operation of amendments to orchards and avocado packers was launched, approximately two months after these works began, the government of Michoacán. Has not disclosed the scope of its program,