Amazon will build plant in one of Tijuana’s poorest neighborhoods

The American company Amazon builds a new plant in Mexico, located in Tijuana, Baja California, and plans to begin operations this month at its new Distribution Center (CEDI) headquarters, located in the Real Estate Management and Services Group (RMSG) industrial park. on one side of the Alamar expressway.

With this new building, of an area of ​​32 thousand square meters, the transnational will inaugurate its ninth distribution center in Mexico and the second in the north of the country, resulting in significant savings in the costs and delivery time of their products, at the same time that it will offer new labor opportunities to the tijuanenses.

“As part of the actions promoted to attract investment to our city, the municipal government, through the Sedeti, supported the management of procedures to specify the opening of this important company, which will contribute to the reactivation economic and the well – being of families, “she said municipal president, Karla Patricia Ruiz MACFARLAND in a statement.

Recently, the Secretary of Economic Development (Sedeti) of Tijuana, Gabriel Camarena Salines, accompanied the supervisor of the work of Amazon, Maria Cortez, on a tour to see the progress of the facilities in which an average of $ 21 million was invested and which will go into operation in September.

Amazon will create 250 new jobs

This new shipping center in the municipality will benefit the company’s customers. by enabling deliveries on the day in Tijuana and the next day in the cities of Mexicali, Tecate, Ensenada and Rosarito Beaches; Besides, it will initially generate 250 new jobs, Which may increase with the operation of this company has become one of the four richest in the world.

The arrival of Amazon in Tijuana, contributes to the economic recovery that is activating in the different productive sectors, achieving stability in employment.

At the same time, the above gives evidence of the financial balance in which the City Council is and ratifies the ratings of higher credit quality for investment, established by the companies HR Ratings and Fitch Ratings, ensuring the creation of jobs, its growth and the economic stability of the citizenry.

They criticize Amazon’s new plant

On social media, Twitter users criticized the construction of Amazon’s new plant in Tijuana, noting that what they don’t see are “the wages of misery and labor exploitation that workers live on.”

Also, several users highlighted the contrast between the new facilities and the surrounding homes, Which, they say, are part of one of the poorest neighborhoods in Tijuana.

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