The call was made at the Provincial Plenary of the CTC in Ciego de Avila.

It was made clear at the recent plenary session of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) in Ciego de Avila that, in times of energy crisis, the priority in fuel distribution today is the sugar harvest, potato, pineapple, tomato and banana plantations, tourism and electricity generation, but nothing competes with the indispensable stability of the labour force, which cannot lack the motivation to produce more and efficiently.

On the subject, Lázaro Morales Zamora, of the Empresa Agropecuaria La Cuba, gave the example that they started this year with 12 agricultural labour collectives, today they have 26 and two in process, 24 of them with very efficient results that facilitate productions above 120 percent of compliance with the plan and high salaries at the end of the crop cycle.

He explained that the greatest impact there has been the reincorporation of the workforce directly into the field, based on incentives such as emulation systems, housing improvement, food sales and other actions to strengthen the productive base.

He emphasised that the increase in the number of brigades and the recovery of specialists has made it possible to increase the daily rate of plantain planting to more than six hectares, previously three, and they are committed to closing the year with more than a thousand hectares planted.

Despite the achievements of the workers of Agropecuaria La Cuba and other collectives recognised at the plenary, Leobanys Ávila Góngora, member of the National Secretariat of the CTC, drew attention to the results of the visits to seven companies in Avila, in which there are cracks in the profit distribution regulations, since in several of them the management personnel and those in the area of regulation and control earn more than the workers directly involved in production.

The leader called to be more systematic and combative with regard to other irregularities, because it is unfair that they wear themselves out with hiring at the production bases and then the payment of the finished production is delayed or not made.

The report discussed at the CTC’s provincial plenary session in Ciego de Avila showed that 61% of the total of 119 physical indicators of production and services, most of which are related to food production, were not met, an issue that requires greater links between trade union officials and state and private sector entities.