The participants of the 22nd Municipal Conference of the Cuban Workers’ Central (CTC) in Holguín burst into applause after delegate Félix Mario Hechavarría explained the wage incentives and benefits that exist at the Lázaro Peña Cigar Company.
He said that in his workplace 21 workers have been rewarded for high performance, each of whom recently received a television set as an incentive; he explained how every bit of land in the entity is planted with vegetables that are destined for the workers’ dining hall, and also about the production of eggs and rabbits that are then part of the main course for the children of the Casita Infantil.
This intervention was an example of what must be achieved in the workplaces. As Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, member of the Political Bureau of the Party and General Secretary of the CTC, said, although there are objective factors that limit the development of the productive forces, there are others of a subjective nature that have a strong influence, such as «bureaucratic obstacles and inertia in the thinking of employers and union leaders.
Thus, the country’s top union leader advocated continuous training on current legislation in order to be able to demand and promote collective action, especially given the constant changes in the country’s labor legislation.
«This framework of changes must lead us to a superior leadership in the exercise of trade union work. The union today must prevail with arguments, because the power to convene, to persuade and to mobilize cannot be based on empty rhetoric,» he said.
At the conference, the last one held in the Eastern Province at the municipal level, and where Joel Queipo Ruiz, member of the Central Committee of the Party and First Secretary of this organization in the territory, also discussed various issues such as food production, contracting between forms of production, exploitation of idle lands, union operation and forms of moral recognition to the workers.
Regarding agricultural work, Guilarte said that the greatest possible yield should be obtained from the available land, while regarding the attention of workers, he said that the CTC and the Education Union should develop policies to stimulate teachers. «We must look for ways to improve the educational foundations of society,» he stressed.
In the presence of Misael Rodríguez Llanes, Santiago Badía González and Julio Enrique Morales Verea, general secretaries of the national unions of construction workers, health workers and hotel and tourism workers, respectively, Guilarte de Nacimiento recognized the organic process of the province of Holguín in its municipal structures, characterized by quality interventions and «contributions of the vision of the trade union movement to issues that continue to hinder the performance of the efficient management of the socialist state enterprise and non-state forms of management».
At the end of the assembly, Yaima Hidalgo Aguilera was promoted as the new General Secretary of the Holguín CTC Municipal Committee, and the work of Tamara Ávila Leyva in this position was recognized.
