Divides, companies weaken

It is said that you divide and conquer. But, in the case of the business sector, circumstances can be further weakened. And you don’t have to find the black thread to know that the strength of the industries generates investment, employment and in turn development of a country.

However, the business union knows that the main leaders are weakened. On the one hand, Francisco Cervantes, president of the Business Coordinating Council, although it would seem that he would have the support of all given the support of the Federal Government for which he came to this position, the reality is far from this premise.

Concamin, under the command of José Abugaber, does not seem to propose or advance, they assure us that he is more concerned with the photo of the events than with proposing and entering the issues that influence the union.

Apparently each camera pulls its way, and there is no guideline, where the main domes are CCE and Concamin. In short, let us hope that this will be redirected, especially when 2023 is a year of great challenges, where the strength of companies will be tested, and not precisely the large ones but the micro, small and medium-sized ones, which, although they are not those that occupy 90% of the generation of economy, do provide 95% of formal employment.

A challenge that can lead to the generation of a larger informal economy, and labor poverty whose burden will be more than complicated than inflation itself.

We must not forget that, according to CONEVAL, led by Guillermo Cejudo, working poverty is found in more than 40% of the employed population, that is, they do not have enough income to cover an adequate basic basket. Not even because of the rise in wages, given that inflation, the crisis and the generation of employment took a setback and the advances fell.

According to José Luis de la Cruz, most of the job insecurity is in the informal economy, which represents 55% of workers, and the fight against the informal economy is not being an issue that is being addressed to minimize.

Added to this, the economic slowdown expected in 2023 will play against business strength. The growth that will be forecast will not be enough to cushion this situation.

And it is that, even when they wanted to incorporate the informal economy into the formal economy, this process should be gradual, because there would simply be institutions that would not support this process, as is the case of the IMSS, directed by Zoé Robledo and ISSSTE, under the command of Pedro Zenteno, who could not care for the health of the entire population immediately.

It is necessary to generate financing mechanisms, for the development of medium-sized companies, which are the ones that can begin to address this problem, through their development.

In addition to streamlining costs and bureaucracy so that companies can be regularized, without leaving growth aside, because otherwise, the informal economy cannot be regulated.

And the Association that does seek to continue advancing as its still president Bernardo González Rosa does, is AMAFORE. Well, although he will leave office in January 2023, the Council, made up of 9 members, is already probing who will replace him.

The names that sound via a Headhunters, are; Sofia Belmar, Nicole Breach and Guillermo Zamarripa, however, also, and not by the Headhunters, the name of Mari Nieves Lanzagorta comes to light.

It will be necessary to see what is the objective of this Association to then define who will be the successor of González Rosas.

What seems real is that a woman will be, for the first time in the history of AMAFORE, the new head. Any of the three will be a key piece and she will do a great job, without a doubt.

The question is what the Council is looking for; continuity, exposition, political scheme. What will be the focus to follow up on all these changes in the pension reform, evaluate its performance, and continue to have a strong voice for the benefit of workers.