Without effective solutions to the growing problems of the acute economic crisis that the country is going through, theCuban regime also fails to pay salaries to workers and pensions to retirees due to lack of cash, as has emerged in recent days.
During the last session of the Council of Ministers, the general secretary of the Cuban Workers' Union, Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, admitted that in several sectors of the country's economy there has been an increase innon-payment to workers and there is unrest in labor groups for that reason.
Guilarte alluded to the “growth that non-payment to workers is already having in various sectors of the economy, which constitutes dissatisfaction within worker groups,” according to the website.Presidency and Government of Cuba.
He also warned that there are more than 300 companies with losses, and in them a significant number of workers who see their economic benefits and the possibility of improving income limited.
The official recognized that this situation is a consequence of the lack of control and inefficient management of the administrations of state companies.
In this regard, the prime ministerManuel Marrero Cruz He said that the main bosses are the most responsible and guilty of these problems. “Wherever there is afinancial problem We must discuss it, make proposals and find solutions before the date on which salaries are due,” he said.
“If we do not start by identifying the things that we have wrong, the things that are working poorly and we look for a solution, we will stop, we will not move forward, and we will continue doing, as we have said, a little more of the same,” he said in another of his interventions at the government meeting, which addressed othercrucial problems of the national economy.
A publication from the official radio stationHoly Spirit Radio It also addressed the failure to pay salaries to workers in various sectors and pensions to retirees in that province.
Deivy Pérez Martín, first secretary of the PCC, alleged in a recent meeting that the collection of cash is insufficient due to problems related to the application of thebanking in the territory.
77% of economic actors have open tax accounts, as established, but the majority do not activate them or do not use them, the station justified. This situation results in low levels of cash deposits in banks and little availability in ATMs.
According to Pérez, entities, state or not, would be forced to use payment channels. At the same time, he criticized the leaders of the territory because “we must have vision and a sense of what can happen to us when we do not have money for workers' salaries.”
A site reportMartí News It showed that in the province of Sancti Spíritus, non-payment of workers' salaries is a recurring problem.
The government's inability to fulfill its obligation is repeated in Coppelita, the pizzeria, in a center called El Recreo and in entities belonging to the Ministry of Culture, where people spend months without receiving their salary, according to opposition leader Adriano Castañeda.
The same happens in industries where production is paralyzed, such as the Combined Dairy, whose management sent the workers home without paying them, “one more illegality because they have to maintain their salary for three months,” exemplified the dissident.
Non-payments by the government also affect agriculture, a very sensitive sector that harms the limited diet of the population.
There are producers who have not received their payment for months due to production problems and lack of support from companies, he noted.Martí News.
For example, the employees of a state agricultural farm located at kilometer 1 of the Jamaica-Támez highway, in the province of Guantánamo, have not received their salaries for four months.
Máximo, a retired agricultural engineer, denounced that this is a consequence of “poor attention from the Ministry of Agriculture.”
“By not having production, they are not supported by an average basic salary as it was before, it is not their fault. It is a situation that if the company does not set the minimum conditions they cannot produce. "Their thing is to go to the fields," warned Máximo, who assured that the workers of the Guantanamo state farm do not receive salaries because of the Niceto Pérez García Various Crops Company.
The same problem was reported at a meeting of livestock farmers, held in the municipality of Palma Soriano, in Santiago de Cuba, where a young man warned thatUntil March, some had not received payment for the corn they delivered in 2023, and he asked himself: “Without the money in your hand, how are you going to prepare the land again?”
Thecrisis that the people of Cuba are experiencing today, the highest in the last six decades, with rampant inflation, causing purchasing power to plummet.
This sad situation increases when the government, unable to fix the crooked economy, defaults on people's payments after a month of work or leaves vulnerable populations such as Cuban pensioners without means of subsistence.
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