Cargando...In almost all Agramontino unions there is at least one vacant position in their leadership. Camagüey requires, to improve its projection, about 40 workers who are willing to go further and represent their colleagues; it requires a strengthened cadre policy.
Thus, without mincing words, discussions took place this Friday in that city at the extraordinary plenary session that brought together the provincial secretariat, political authorities of the territory, and Osnay Miguel Colina Fernández, president of the Organizing Commission of the 22nd Congress of the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba ().
This issue is the fundamental reason why the province has only been able to hold eight of the 13 Municipal Conferences of the 22nd Congress that were planned, which is why the perspective must change, as Colina Fernández explained.
“This is a decisive province for Cuba,” argued the labor leader, “in every respect, and we cannot fail. Even though daily life is complicated and there are discouraged people, we must accompany all workers.”
In that sense, the conversation also focused on workers in the non-state sector and their unionization. Another aspect, which according to the leader, “requires personalized work and greater support.
Cuba and the future are at risk, so we must reach people, be there for them, but that cannot be achieved in a single day.”
María de los Ángeles Mesa Pérez, secretary of the provincial bureau of the National Union of Communications, Information Technology and Electronics Workers, gave an example of how in her union affiliation and attention to the non-state sector became a priority, and that sector is fully unionized.
Indeed, priority became the watchword of the meeting, in which Colina Fernández also urged those present to engage in more frequent dialogue with workers: “When they see you more than once and know you are aware of such problems, they can commit because they trust us. That is when our mission of attending to and representing all workers makes sense.”
The discussion also touched on the inconsistencies that sometimes exist between different databases and the reality of affiliates, and it was announced that these records, along with the registry of grassroots leaders, will be reviewed.
The attention and unionization of retirees, the importance of optimizing union work, and the different strategies that can be applied to fill vacant cadre positions were also topics addressed at the plenary session.
In conclusion, Walter Simón Noris, first secretary of the PCC in the province, agreed that work must be carried out in an orderly manner to achieve better results. “These are complex times,” he said, “in which we must do better political and ideological work, because what we do not do ourselves, the enemy does. That is why we must talk more with the people—that is the essence.”
