The international economic crisis was not helped at all with the Cuban Revolution. With Cuba on the verge of economic and social disaster, its government announced that more than half one million state workers can be cast adrift to fend for themselves by March 2011. The “Cuban model” was said by Fidel Castro a 7 days before the announcement to not be working anymore to Jeffery Goldberg, Atlantic press reporter. Cuba’s difficulties go a lot deeper than just government employees as the last communist system within the world. This is why many think just letting go these individuals won’t help at all. Article source – Fidel Castro admits the Cuban Revolution is a dismal failure by Personal Money Store.
Cuban communist party abandons workers
The Cuban government plans to lay off more than half a million public sector workers. The government hopes the economy will grow with this change. In theory, private businesses should pick up the workers the government is losing. Cuba isn’t prepared with its government to deal with the changes brought on by the international financial crisis, states the NY Times. It is also recovering from the 2008 hurricanes that came through still. Tourism is fairly much dead right about now. Not only that, however sugar crops in the country have also was unsuccessful while rice shortages seem plentiful also. Monday, Cuban Workers’ Central made a statement. This statement agreed that these changes have to happen as easily as possible since the economy in the country is re! ally bad right now.
Working with slackers
The Cuban layoffs will initially focus on overpaid, unproductive and undisciplined workers, as outlined by an internal Cuban Communist Party document obtained by the Associated Press. The first to be let go will be workers at Cuba’s ministries of public health, tourism, agriculture and sugar. Forming private businesses is what fired workers should do. They are encouraged to implement it by the Cuban Workers’ Central. The government could be doing what it can to help this. It will do this by getting rid of foreign-run businesses and joint ventures. Cubans were given a list of three things in the document that can be their weaknesses when it comes to being on their own. These three things are a lack of initiative, little experience and low skill levels.
Why would Cuba believe this to be the solution?
Some of the experts of Cuba have the fear that private sectors won’t be able to bring fired government workers under their wings. Jaime Suchlicki told the Wall Street Journal there will be nowhere else for fired workers to go. Suchlicki is the director of the Institute for Cuban Studies at the University of Miami. “They won’t be absorbed by the private sector because there is no private sector to absorb them,” he said. It would be for Cubans to really start a business also thinking about the government regulations, bans on advertising, high taxes, lack of credit and lack of foreign exchange. Some of the choices these Cubans have for employment at carpenter, music teacher, piñata salesman and tor repairman. These were all on a list the government put out of “authorized” employment.
New York Times
nytimes.com/2010/09/14/world/americas/14cuba.html?_r=1 and hp
Associated Press
google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ipe0no99xWr_oUrAP-q6PnKLj8XgD9I7O0BO0
Wall Street Journal
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704190704575489932181245938.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
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