The footwear sector is in a process of recovery, both in jobs and in factories. In January 2022, the shoe factories of Guanajuato recovered 8,000 of the 15,000 jobs lost at the most critical moment of the coronavirus pandemic. [México: la industria del calzado está saliendo del túnel – Puntodincontro]
In Mexico, the Guanajuato footwear industry is coming out of the tunnel. The numbers of the association of the shoe district of this Mexican state confirm that in January the companies in the sector hired 8,000 employees. That is to say exactly half of the jobs that had been lost at the most critical moment of the pandemic. The trend is upwards. According to the top management of the institution, in fact, the demand for work by companies currently exceeds the supply of workers, so the recovery of the sector should continue.
Numbers in hand, the executive president of the Chamber, Alejandro Gómez Tamez, explained to the newspaper Milenio that the sector is "in a process of recovery, both in jobs and in factories". According to the data, in January 2022, the footwear companies of the Mexican state recovered 8,000 of the 15,000 jobs lost at the most critical moment of the pandemic. "We are therefore seeing an actual loss, now, of 7,000 jobs," added Gómez Tamez, "but there is a lot of demand for work and people do not arrive."
In Guanajuato there are more than 4,300 companies in the sector: the city of León is the main producer nationwide. Here companies make 8 pairs of shoes out of 10 of all those produced in Mexico. The search for personnel thus becomes a crucial issue for production and the economy, but also for society. For this reason, the Chamber of Guanajuato has published on its portal a list with all the vacancies and references to advance its candidacy.
