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Raul Castro Reaffirms Confidence in Cuban Labor Movement
Cuban President Raul Castro reaffirmed the Revolution's confidence in the labor movement, which is leading the updating of the country's economic model.
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Cuban President Raul Castro reaffirmed the Revolution's confidence in the labor movement, which is leading the updating of the country's economic model.
The only way to break with dogma, bad habits, and taboos is to involve the masses under the leadership of the working class, because together with the farmers and the people, it is the most revolutionary class, Raul Castro said at the closing of the 86th Expanded Plenary Session of the National Council of the Central Workers Organization of Cuba (CTC).
According to Granma newspaper, the Cuban president emphasized the need for union leaders to be familiar with the principles that control the economy, because it is decisive to the functioning of any revolution.
"It is up to you, from the CTC Secretariat to the most modest leader, to play the same role that (historic Cuban union leader) Lazaro Pena did in his time. With wisdom and experience, he requested at the 13th CTC Congress, in 1973, to give up conquests wrested from the bourgeoisie, because the situation had changed and the workers were the owners of the means of production," Raul Castro stated.
For example, Pena proposed to repeal a law that, full of good intentions but incorrect and therefore unsustainable from an economic stanpoint, paid 100 percent of his or her salary to a worker who retired with a record of exemplary conduct on the job.
Raul Castro insisted on being demanding with cadres, eradicating the tendency of some to hide failures, and the urgency of learning from mistakes, because "they have to be useful to us at least in drawing from the experience so as not to repeat them."
Economy Minister Marino Murillo gave a detailed report to the 202 participants in the meeting on the current Cuban economic situation and measures that are being adopted.
Those new measures are aimed at eliminating excessive subsidies, relieving the State of activities for which it should not be responsible, reducing bloated payrolls and increasing productivity.
CTC general secretary Salvador Valdes stated that workers would support these measures of labor restructuring, which will foster discipline, increase productivity and create a culture of producers.
The union movement has a decisive role in the current historic situation and future prospects. And he concluded, "The working class has not failed the Revolution in these 50 years, because it would be like failing ourselves."
The only way to break with dogma, bad habits, and taboos is to involve the masses under the leadership of the working class, because together with the farmers and the people, it is the most revolutionary class, Raul Castro said at the closing of the 86th Expanded Plenary Session of the National Council of the Central Workers Organization of Cuba (CTC).
According to Granma newspaper, the Cuban president emphasized the need for union leaders to be familiar with the principles that control the economy, because it is decisive to the functioning of any revolution.
"It is up to you, from the CTC Secretariat to the most modest leader, to play the same role that (historic Cuban union leader) Lazaro Pena did in his time. With wisdom and experience, he requested at the 13th CTC Congress, in 1973, to give up conquests wrested from the bourgeoisie, because the situation had changed and the workers were the owners of the means of production," Raul Castro stated.
For example, Pena proposed to repeal a law that, full of good intentions but incorrect and therefore unsustainable from an economic stanpoint, paid 100 percent of his or her salary to a worker who retired with a record of exemplary conduct on the job.
Raul Castro insisted on being demanding with cadres, eradicating the tendency of some to hide failures, and the urgency of learning from mistakes, because "they have to be useful to us at least in drawing from the experience so as not to repeat them."
Economy Minister Marino Murillo gave a detailed report to the 202 participants in the meeting on the current Cuban economic situation and measures that are being adopted.
Those new measures are aimed at eliminating excessive subsidies, relieving the State of activities for which it should not be responsible, reducing bloated payrolls and increasing productivity.
CTC general secretary Salvador Valdes stated that workers would support these measures of labor restructuring, which will foster discipline, increase productivity and create a culture of producers.
The union movement has a decisive role in the current historic situation and future prospects. And he concluded, "The working class has not failed the Revolution in these 50 years, because it would be like failing ourselves."