• Following the final sessions of the great CTC gathering that began this morning, it will be necessary to boost actions and implement proposals, concerns and agreements in grassroots trade union structures and workplaces.

A backing for the central report of the 22nd Congress of the Cuban Workers’ Federation (CTC), read this morning by Osnay Miguel Colina Rodríguez, president of the organisation’s Organising Commission, was expressed by delegates from the province of Ciego de Ávila in the first final session of the gathering through the virtual space.

According to the opinion of several of those present at the headquarters of the Communist Party of Cuba Provincial Committee, it is necessary to analyse with a critical spirit everything related to wage impacts, from the perspective that workers and collectives that contribute most should receive the most.

«Of course, as stated in the document, for the improvement of living standards, the increase in production, productivity and efficiency must be generated, which today are affected by the country’s complex situation due to the deficit of fuel, electricity and indispensable material resources,» said Inés Chaviano Soto, general secretary of the trade union section of the Coffee Roasting Branch Company.

Wages have lost purchasing power. «Our organisation must continue supporting the fulfilment of profit distribution as part of personal income, based on the increase in productive results of goods and services,» stressed Luis Pérez Vargas, direct delegate representing the cultural sector.

Other representatives of Avilanian workers at this conclave declared themselves identified with the content of the document reported by Colina Rodríguez, in relation to the fight against crime, among the most recurrent: price violations, illicit economic activity, manifestations of corruption and diversion of material and financial resources.

This first working session will be a long day, and the concluding one will take place tomorrow with the presentation and approval of objectives for the next working period.