Evaluation of productivity with shared benefits and its impact on the welfare of unionized workers in the State of Sonora, México.

Abstract

To achieve a high standard of living, competitiveness is decisive, with productivity as the only basis (Porter, 1990). Sonora lost competitiveness within the northern border region with a growth of (0.09%), in the years 2016 to 2019. Most workers have an insufficient income to achieve economic well-being. The State Development Plan 2021-2027 contemplates as the eighth axis Decent Work and Economic Growth and as the tenth axis the Reduction of inequalities. This research sought to know how many union organizations have implemented productivity agreements with shared benefits or bonuses as marked by the Federal Labor Law (2012) and are complying with its application in Sonora, Mexico and thus improve the real income of workers for better welfare.  The role of productivity in increasing national welfare is now universally recognized. (Prokopenko, 1989).

Quantitative and documentary methodology was applied, performing an analysis of wage increases, inflation affectation, real wages, productivity bonus agreements and salary records in the IMSS in the period from 2013 to 2022.