Havana: The XXI Congress of the Cuban Workers’ Confederation (CTC in Spanish) enters today its third day with the debate in commissions about the support of the unions to the economic priorities of the Island and other issues, Prensa Latina reports.

Gathered in five groups at the Havana Convention Center, more than a thousand delegates will analyze the fuctioning of the organization as an indispensable premise to guarantee its leadership and the contribution of workers to the efficiency demanded by the national economy.

In addition, the defies and challenges of the labor movement before the transformations in the labor scenario linked to the growth and diversification of the non-state forms of management, the ideological political work, and the representation and defense of the rights and duties of the workers.

Yesterday, the delegates visited institutions and ministries involved in tasks and core programs of the Caribbean nation in sectors such as construction, industry, communications, agriculture, public administration, commerce and culture.

In these centers they received information related to the statements made by the workers in the broad organic process prior to the Congress, which was inaugurated on Saturday with the presence of the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, José Ramón Machado Ventura, the first vice president, Salvador Valdés, and other government authorities.

The meeting will end on April 24 with the presentation of the National Council of the CTC, which will be elected in Congress, and its Executive Secretariat.

Compartir / Share