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Guadalajara, Mexico,- The plant Kodak – the giant in photography – has in Zapopan operates at. around 65% of its capacity.

Rafael Torres Arredondo, leader of the Company’s Workers Union, said in a phone interview that the Company had one thousand 200 employees yesterday, while some years ago its labor force reached 4 thousand people.

“Conservatively, I would say it currently is 60% or 65%”.

He cleared out, however, that they are recruiting to have a labor force over 2 thousand people next February, even though it is a personnel rotation process.

As a matter of fact, workers are aware that in the electronics sector Kodak is one of the companies with the most personnel layoffs. According to Ricardo Gomez, Chairman of Mexican Chamber of Electronics Industry, Telecommunications and Information Technologies (Cámara Nacional de la Industria Electrónica, de Telecomunicaciones y Tecnologías de la Información [Canieti]) in Jalisco, companies have been renewing themselves and offering new products, as have done many of them in the cluster installed in the State which were previously mainly focused in manufacturing.