The members of the Provincial Committee of the Central Union of Cuban Workers (CTC), who met in an extraordinary plenary session, returned to address essential issues in the improvement of their performance, and I say returned because these are topics of repeated debates that have been analyzed in depth without the proposals taking the channel they need.
The pronouncements demonstrate mastery of the ABC that regulates the work and also failures in the implementation of the principles that govern the functioning of the leadership bodies of the CTC, its 15 unions, and the Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR, in Spanish), its objectives and priorities, which are even more relevant currently.
It is still an unfinished business because it seldom goes beyond the limits of the reflection scenarios, the purpose of being combative and quick in dealing with the workers' concerns and dissatisfactions, is to achieve a greater protagonist and better representation, it is necessary to "search until solutions are found or objective explanations are found that respond to their demands."
The link between trade union leaders and the rank and file, with their members in the workplace, is still weak, so both members and workers in general feel that they are accompanied in the face of the current challenges.
There is tangible evidence of the limitations that hinder the work of the workers' organization, for example, the poor functioning of some - the majority - of the Innovators and Rationalizers Committees, and their committees for the evaluation and processing of the work carried out, which bring so many benefits to the business, local and national economy.
These procedural flaws prevent the timely recognition and remuneration established in Law 38, which many administrative departments fail to comply with some trade union tolerance, "because the Association of Innovators and Rationalisers (Anir) is the responsibility of the respective trade unions and they have to take sides until they definitively eliminate the obstacles that deny the postulates of this legislation," Mailín Mir Corrales, a member of the Provincial Secretariat of the CTC, reiterated with emphasis.
There are still gaps in the training and preparation of new trade union leaders, especially at the grassroots, the scene today of the organic process of the 22nd Congress of the CTC, which has so far renewed its leadership structures, and 70 percent of those selected have no experience in this management.
It is also important in these assemblies, which become an opportunity to strengthen the union executives that the most capable are elected to lead them in the difficult situation we are living through because there are debts in the selection of leaders at this level.
Another distortion is the weak use of the Law on the System of Decorations and Honorary Titles, which was conceived to stimulate workers with outstanding performance and requires monitoring of their results and the established documentation.
Pablo Cuellar Vargas, head of the provincial training group, called it a deformation not to enforce recognition of the general workers' assembly as the supreme management body in workplaces.
The cadre policy and the deficiencies that persist in the formation of the quarry; the problems in affiliation, both in the state and private sector, and the preparation and self-preparation of the leaders concerning the legislation that is passed, also hinder the capacity for good representation and therefore the leadership that will allow them to organize, convene and mobilize the workers to face today's challenges.
"To meet the workers' expectations, the union has to function well and have leadership," emphasized Karen González Velázquez, a member of the Provincial Party Bureau in Las Tunas. The leader also insisted that once these obstacles have been overcome, the trade union movement will be able to fulfill these missions, which are understood as a necessity for the country and the defense of the Revolution.
