Cuban workers

Fewer workplace accidents in Cuba in 2025, although the number of fatalities is concerning

Gas plant workers in Camagüey were stealing cylinders with the help of external accomplices

Cuban photojournalist questions the CTC: "Who defends the worker if the union answers to the Party?"

More faith than results: Díaz-Canel closes CTC Congress with a call for the “will and deep conviction that we can indeed do it”

“It's not privatization for the sake of privatization”: Díaz-Canel denies a capitalist drift in Cuba while opening more space for the market and foreign investment

Cuban leader: "If we do not create wealth, we cannot build the just society we desire."

Díaz-Canel proposes to mobilize unemployed workers into community brigades to tackle the crisis

Oscar Pérez Oliva-Fraga argues for the end of universal subsidies because the Cuban economy "cannot withstand it."

“The power belongs to the people, not the rich or the bourgeois,” says Díaz-Canel while defending the economic reforms

Díaz-Canel calls for "creating wealth": the regime in Cuba embraces the market discourse amid economic collapse

Díaz-Canel is trying to prop up a CTC that is increasingly being called into question by the workers

Julio César Guanche focuses on "the tragedy of the crisis, its interested exploitation, and the lack of capacity of the Cuban people to intervene."

What this Cuban did for a humble street worker is moving social media: "How sad"

A king in ETECSA Cienfuegos: Noel Ernesto Dorado García

Green jobs in Cuba? The Ministry of Labor and Social Security is getting creative

"My words were my actions, and they hired me": a Cuban recalls his first job in Spain

"Now we really straighten out the national economy," scoffs Cuban writer and linguist

Economist Pedro Monreal on the anti-worker nature of the package: What about the right to strike and free unions?

"It's necessary to address salaries": Official newspaper acknowledges growing discontent among Cuban workers

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) grants pensions to 44 Cubans that have been blocked for nearly 65 years

Cuban woman reports the bankruptcy of a state-owned company: Her 64-year-old father lost his job overnight

There is nothing to salvage: Cuba does not need to reform its state enterprise. It needs to liquidate it.

The regime promises to protect Cuban workers before the ILO as the crisis deepens

The new Labor Code prepares Cuba for an economy with a larger private sector and fewer state jobs

New Labor Code in Cuba opens the door to remote work from abroad

Will there be a XXII Congress of the Cuban Workers' Central?: CTC President responds

Cuban government modifies Labor Code in response to increase in labor interruptions

A Cuban showcases the rhythm of his waist while working on a ladder, and someone says to him, "I need a painter at home."

"I work to help my mom": 14-year-old Cuban boy makes money driving a pedicab

Cuban regime turns workplaces into events supporting Raúl Castro

"And what next?": Cubans question cleanup efforts at a pediatric hospital

The average salary in Cuba loses more than 20% of its value in a year despite official increases

Minister says that salaries for workers interrupted by the fuel crisis in Cuba are guaranteed

Marxlenin Pérez Valdés, concerned about the international working class: "And the Cuban one?"

Cuba still has strong assets: Human capital, the diaspora, and proximity to the U.S. emerge as key factors for overcoming the crisis

"Cuba: An Example of Dignity for Nations," says the official press while the country sinks

Tourism collapse in Cuba leaves 300,000 workers without income

Ulises Toirac: The absurdity of "a government that prioritizes mobilizations, signatures, and interviews"

El Necio publishes "poem" to the former dictator Fidel Castro from Moscow: "We will not let you die."

"Great spirit": Cubans respond with mockery to youth propaganda about the May 1st parade

"Unity" and "efficiency": this is how the official press describes the parade in Camagüey while the province has been without electricity or transportation for months

"It's not about the people who march, but about those who cannot express themselves," says a Cuban professor and jurist

Marrero Cruz praises Cuban workers who "refuse to be defeated."

It has been reported that executives in Bayamo are pressuring employees to obtain signatures in triplicate and are threatening those who refuse

A man is arrested following a million-dollar theft of tobacco and cigars in Cuba

Villa Clara in pure "celebration" for May Day, while workers struggle to make ends meet

"Cuba does not surrender," asserts the CTC, claiming to have "the steadfastness, resilience, and strength of the united people."

In Cuba, there is indeed money for 'internships' for leftist union members while workers barely survive

Transition Plan for Cuba: Free Unions vs. Communist CTC

Cuban workers are threatened with dismissal if they refuse to sign an ideological adherence document

Shoving and chaos at a bank in Havana as retirees and workers try to withdraw their money

Out of danger, Cuban who suffered injuries in collapse in Guyana

"The Workers' Party": in Matanzas, destroyed, the "fervor" for May 1st is growing

CTC urges workers to address the deficiency of energy carriers

The author of the controversial job offer in Matanzas responds to criticism: "I am trying to get ahead with my child."

Symbolic blow: The Cuban regime pulls May Day from the square again due to the crisis

Job offer in Matanzas sparks controversy: they pay 2 CUP for each candy sold and a 12-hour shift

"The young blonde" who "was retracing Santa Clara": The heartfelt tribute from the CTC leader to Díaz-Canel

Amid the crisis, the regime summons May 1st with a warlike tone against the U.S.

Director of an NGO in Cuba calls for preparing Cuban youth for "real life" and less state control