The Communications, Information Technology and Electronics (SNTCIE) workers from Las Tunas held their 2nd Conference, through videoconference, focused on the critical analysis of their main problems both in the labor and union fields.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- During the meeting, chaired by Marisol Fuentes Ferrer, top leader of the SNTCIE, and Leobanys Ávila Góngora, secretary-general of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Workers’ Federation (CTC), the participants insisted on the need to improve the Labor System for the development of the assemblies of affiliates. They said that it is necessary to raise the demand even more so that these are developed in the envisaged context. They also agreed that it is necessary to promote initiative and the use of workers' talent to improve economic results.
Ernesto Rodríguez, secretary of the Trade Union Bureau in the division of the Radiocuba Company, highlighted the efforts of his colleagues who maintained the services despite the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, without any institutional transmission event being recorded.
The monetary ordering undoubtedly impacted workers, Tania Domínguez, head of the Union of the Territorial Division of the Telecommunications Company (ETECSA), said. "Our concerns were heard and led to various actions to solve them," she commented. Another point of debate that reflects the exchanges of opinions in the labor groups, were the regulations that came into force since last January on the distribution of profits and the new salary scales, resulting from the most recent transformations in the Cuban economy.
For her part, Ana Libia García, who leads the Union Bureau of non-state workers, stressed that currently more than two thousand self-employed workers are affiliated with the union, among whom the greatest increases in unionization are registered. In fact, today they are 50 percent of all union members here. In this regard, the Bureau of the self-employed in Las Tunas is the oldest among its peers in the country. This is due, García said, to the close communication with both the ETECSA managers and the rest of the union structures.
"Besides, the evaluation system for Telecommunications agents has been very important," she concluded.
