Call for the III National Conference of the Public Administration Workers' Union

Havana, Nov 22.- Just hours before November 23, the date marking the founding of the National Union of Public Administration Workers (SNTAP, for its acronym in Spanish) by Fidel and Lázaro Peña in 1961, its more than 177,000 members are embarking on the path towards its III National Conference.

This Friday morning, in front of the monument erected in the capital's Laguito area in memory of Celia Sánchez -the beautiful and native flower of the Revolution- the leadership of the SNTAP announced the call for this important meeting. Its final sessions will be held in November of next year, coinciding with the centenary of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro and the 65th anniversary of the union.

Niuris Cabrera Ibañez, General Secretary of the SNTAP, read the convocation, which emphasizes that the internal organizational process prior to the conference will be a timely scenario to evaluate the functioning of the base trade union organizations and leadership bodies for a comprehensive transformation of the union's role in the updating of the Cuban economic and social model.

It also states that the event next November will be preceded by the celebrations of the IX Congress of the Communist Party and the XXII Congress of the Cuban Workers' Union (CTC, for its acronym in Spanish), which will approve the projections and priorities that Cuban trade unionism must implement in its work collectives.

The process will serve to pay full attention to issues related to employment, wages, labor fluctuation, the constant improvement of working conditions, occupational safety and health, and moral and wage incentives, among others.

The spectrum in which the SNTAP operates ranges from banking institutions to entities of the People's Power system, the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, political and mass organizations, global economic bodies, several ministries, a wide business network, and various associations, including those for the Physically-Motor Disabled (Aclifim), the Blind (ANCI), and the Deaf (Ansoc).

The presentation of the convocation was led by Yaisel Pieter Terry, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and of the Organizing Commission for the XXII Congress of the Cuban Workers' Union (CTC), leaders from several ministries and institutions of the central state administration, Norwegian trade unionists who stand in solidarity with Cuba, and members of the National Committee of the island's trade union organization. (Text and photo: Trabajadores Digital)