Still hit by the shortage of raw materials and the lack of fuel and spare parts, Holguin members of the National Union of Industry Workers (SNTI) are betting on doing everything in their hands to help revive the economy of the province and the country as well.
This was evidence during the Third National Conference of the Union of Industrial Workers in Holguín, which was attended by 50 delegates representing the more than five thousand affiliates of the branch in the territory, which includes important entities such as the iron and steel plants and the steel-mechanical plants Empresa Mecánica Héroes del 26 de Julio and the Empresa de Combinadas Cañeras KTP, as well as the Inejiro Asanuma Spinning spinning mill, the José Miró Argenter Polygraphic Plant, Cajimaya Plastics, Acorde Furniture, among others.
In the presence of Yaquelín Baños Torres, secretary general of the SNTI, about 18 speakers demonstrated the concern of the union leaders in Holguin regarding membership, labor force fluctuation, attention to retirees and young people, distribution of profits, profits distribution, unionization of new economic actors, and the functioning of the socialist state enterprise.
The participants agreed that the solution to almost all of the problems is found in the grassroots structures themselves, where wills must be united to find optional structures, labor control and production alternatives, and reduce bureaucracy, so that the industries not only survive but also to grow in the face of economic adversities.
Baños Torres was emphatic when expressing that in the country’s current conditions, the approach must be to look for solutions in the centers themselves, to promote analysis in the assemblies of affiliates so that production leads to wages, because, she said, “we have a commitment to the workers.
Delegate Jorge Enrique Ricardo Luis, secretary of the Special Bureau of the Industrial Zone, when speaking of affiliation, stated that there has been a lack of work both grassroot and on the part of the union officers and said that “the union exists if the affiliates exist”.
Idalmis Serrano Gómez, secretary general of the Cuban Workers Confederation in Holguín province, said that “the union exists if there are members”, therefore, stressed that affiliating is to make workers fall in love with the union, which means listening to them and listening to their needs.
At the end of the conference, which was also attended by Orlando Reyes Labato, an official of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, María Dolores Domínguez Escalona was ratified as secretary general of the Provincial Bureau of the Union of Industries.
Later, the delegation from Holguin province to attend the final sessions of the Third National Conference of the SNTI, scheduled for the end of October, was prsented the Flag.
With information from Trabajadores / Translated by Radio Angulo
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