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the role played by the social and political character-institutionalized masses...in Cuba everything improves and will continue to improve...I emphasize that Fidel's Cuba will be a worthy host of the XV World Union
Congress." Four years later, in 2009, a dissident was arrested for organizing a union which was not connected the CTC. The following year, Salvador Valdes Mesa, secretary-general of CTC, then representing 3 million workers, the only Cuban labor union allowed in the country, wrote that "reorganization" in Cuba will "ensure redundant workers are reassigned rather than fired". In 2012,
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the Soviet Union, formerly Cuba's main trading partner. Additionally, unionists from other countries were invited guests, with activists from the United States part of a delegation of the U.S.-Cuba Labor
Exchange. The Cuban union movement encompassed, at the time, over 97 per cent of Cuba's workers and worked closely with the governing Cuban Communist Party.
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Lázaro Peña returned from exile in Mexico to assume leadership of the new CTC. During this time, communists remained "on the fringes of the revolution" and didn’t start negotiations with Castro until the spring of 1958 when the defeat of
Batista was inevitable, with the Communist Party, participating
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in exchange for the legalization of the
Communist party and reorganization of the labor movement. This change in the labor movement was capped with the establishment of the Confederation of Cuban Workers, or CTC, in 1938. The CTC was founded after the second Congreso Obrero Latinoamericano, held from
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In the 21st century, the CTC continued its role in Cuban society. Pedro Ross Leal, then the
General Secretary, described the organization as "class conscious", distinguishing them "from other international working associations." He also argued that "the methods of struggle have changed, we must know
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Batista in 1952, and the years until 1958, placed tremendous strain on the labor movement, with some union leaders resigning from the CTC in opposition to Batista. By 1958, the labor movement was a powerful force in Cuban society, with union members reaching nearly one million, or one in
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National Congress, which culminated in a march in Havana on May 1, May Day, or International Workers' Day. Delegates to the conference focused on economic changes in recent years, especially efforts to overcome the economic crisis brought on by the demise of
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Constitution of Cuba was adopted, popular participation through government-approved organizations such as the CTC was encouraged. Since then, the union has stayed an ally of the Cuban government, with the latter arguing that when it listens to this union, it is "hearing all
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with those in the leadership of the CTC becoming more supportive of the country's government after purges and reported marginalization of certain individuals. The Cuban government fundamentally changed the nature of unions in Cuba, with production standards issued in 1960, minimum output levels and
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Revolution. In November 1959, the CTC withdrew from the anti-Communist Inter-American Regional Organization of
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December 2017, the CTC's General Secretary, Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento sent a message to the Cuban people and workers a few days from the 59th anniversary of the Revolution. He also mentioned the young workers whom he described as those who will "continue and guarantee the Revolutionary
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23 to 28 January 1939 in Havana and the Constituent Congress of the Confederation of Cuban Workers. The Congress was attended by some 1,500 delegates from 700 mass organizations. The Congress elected Lázaro Peña, a leading communist trade union activist, secretary general of the CTC.
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In November 2017, the US Government prohibited financial transactions, specifically "gifts" from those in United States to the secretaries and first secretaries of the Confederation of Labor of Cuba (CTC) and its component unions. Around the same time, members of the
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The CTC unites 19 sectoral unions, organised in more than 81,000 workplaces, with elected municipal, provincial and national committees for each union, with all Cuban workers belonging to this trade union federation. The CTC also has a weekly newspaper,
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collective work requirements for enterprises set and government advisory councils which dealt with worker discipline, safety and health, and working conditions established, intended to take the place of independent trade unions.
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in the government and gaining power over the labor unions through its control of the Cuban Confederation of Workers. The original leaders of the organization, such as anti-communist labor leader
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