In the western region of Matanzas, the provincial conference phase of the organic process of the 22nd Congress of the Cuban Workers’ Central (CTC) will begin. The final sessions of the Congress will be held in April of next year.
Unless there is a last minute change, the Matanzas Chapter of the great event should mobilize its delegates and guests on the 6th and 7th of this month, with the Central Plenary Session to be held at the José Smith Comas Party School.
«It is a great merit to initiate this important step in the nation… It was our turn, and we will do it with the honor that it represents. We must not forget that this is the third time in a row that something like this has happened, since we were the first in the 20th and 21st Congresses,» said proudly Osmar Ramírez Ramírez, Secretary General of the Provincial Committee of the CTC.
«We have reached this moment preceded by the culmination of 13 municipal conferences and events at the base, all of which analyzed issues such as efficiency, productivity, employment and wages, the necessary savings in the midst of an energy contingency that implies rationality in the processes of generating goods and services, and the conservation of raw materials from a true anti-crime stance,» Ramírez Ramírez pointed out.
The Provincial Conference will delve into these and other topics to discuss, from an operational point of view, how to best organize and represent workers and how to mobilize them to carry out their productive or service tasks, which are missions of the trade union movement defined in its foundational essence, he reasoned.
He considered that, according to the tendencies of the municipal conferences of the CTC, there will be recurrent interventions on salaries, with good and bad experiences, especially in workplaces where the powers granted to the socialist state enterprise are not respected, the destination of profits is not observed, Decree 87 is not applied, and where there are conditions or the payment for high performance is a rarity.
The Secretary General of the CTC in Matanzas referred to the role of the organization in the economic struggle, especially in a province like this, a heavyweight in the productive and service structure of the nation, for making significant physical and monetary contributions in the tourism, oil and agricultural sectors, among others.
«It will be a proactive conference,» he added. «The people of Matanzas have the duty to propose solutions to help the Revolution, the economy, the efficient fulfillment of plans and the quality in the provision of services, and in this challenge the organization has an enormous share of responsibility. If we are better in the exercise of mobilization, the response of the people will be the same».
Ramirez assured that it will be a «conference at the height of the times that the country is going through. These are difficult times, but they show once again the noble soul of a people that Fidel Castro described as cultured, industrious and revolutionary, who sent everything they could to the victims of hurricanes Oscar and Rafael, and also to those affected by the earthquake in the eastern region.
Since the second and last day will be December 7th, he announced the dedication of this Congress of Matanceros to the Bronze Titan Antonio Maceo, to Frank País García, to the Tribute Operation, and to all the martyrs who «gave their lives to bequeath us this homeland».
A total of 200 delegates will attend the Provincial Conference of the 22nd Congress of the CTC. 62 of them will represent Matanzas in the final sessions of this great event, which will be held in Havana.
