To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the creation of the National Union of Energy and Mine Workers (SNTEM by its acronym in Spanish), the entities that make up the sector met in the province's Electricity Company, led by the secretary general in the territory Reinier Limonta, who endorsed the achievements accumulated over the years.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- With the slogan "Por Cuba Productivos y Eficientes" (For a Productive and Efficient Cuba), the day of celebrations began on the first of July, with the Day of the Oil Worker, the 97th birthday of the undefeated commander Fidel Castro and the 65th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution will also be honored.
The union includes the UEB División Territorial de Comercialización de Combustibles Cupet Las Tunas, the Mina de Oro in the municipality of Jobabo, Empresa Eléctrica, and the UEB Salina de Puerto Padre.
Reinier Limonta Domínguez, secretary general of the SNTEM in the province told the press: "During these 10 years we have encouraged the active participation of workers as protagonists of the results of each of our companies, another of the purposes is to help them in responsible practices within each center.
"We call on this day of celebrations to do more and do it better to achieve a directly proportional relationship between the economic results of each of our entities and investment in improving working conditions, challenges that we must take on and overcome with the collective and popular intelligence that characterizes us."
THE PAYMENT SYSTEM, THE BEST WAY TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY
The payment system for affiliates was another of the issues discussed by the trade union leaders, "today our entities are finalizing a collective bargaining process, which should end on the 31st of this month.
"The union leader continued: "Based on the approval of Decree Law 87, which repeals Decree 53 related to the forms of payment and organization of wage systems, our UEBs can now make their collective bargaining agreements with their particularities."
The payment of utilities and performance within these entities is also one of the modalities used to recognize the work of those who have performed outstandingly well in the missions entrusted to them or who have worked overtime. This is not the case in the Jobabo Gold Mines, a complex that belongs to the province of Camagüey.
"The average salary in the mines is much lower than the workers' work performance, and there is now a new administrative apparatus in place which is expected to function better. It should also be borne in mind that they depend to a large extent on the cement allocated to them for their production, and this puts them at a disadvantage in achieving the proposed objectives."
"Even so, those who work there are at the bottom of the barrel, they do not abandon the place and that sense of belonging characterizes them. The mines have a very humble collective, and although they are exposed to many chemicals that are harmful to their health, they continue to strive to fulfill the production plans."
INNOVATORS, A KEY POINT IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
At the meeting, the president of the National Association of Innovators and Rationalisers of the province, Yaneisy Ávila Escalona, referred to the importance of the men and women who work in each institution, who with their inventiveness carry out the productions and allow the fulfillment of the established plans.
"The province has a total of 31 committees of innovators with some 500 members, among them the Electrical Company, who during the rainy days of last July were able to move forward with their equipment and make it available to those who needed it, no matter where they were."
The work of the innovators is perfect, and we cannot describe it in any other way when they are the main protagonists of the work that continues the Revolution.
"The young people of the Eléctrica made a brilliant exhibition at Soluciones Cuba, in its second edition at the Palacio de Pioneros in the territory, and last year at ExpoAnir they also had a participation that needed to be encouraged."
In these fairs, the authority feels, there is a lack of recognition for the workers of the Gold Mines, who have not yet managed to patent their innovations so that they can be used because they belong to the province of Camagüey, which does not allow Las Tunas to be involved in these processes.
The need to save energy during the summer was another of the topics discussed, in this sense Elizabeth Rojas Bárzaga, a specialist from the ONURE commented on the importance of a better use of energy and responsible action on the part of the population, which translates into zero impact.
