The Government of Cuba, in view of the priority it has given to this activity, decided to allocate thousands of pesos to increase the salary and other income of the electrical workers, whose social recognition grows along with the adversities.

In addition to encouraging its affiliates for such relevant work, the commemoration of the Electric Workers’ Day recalls the intervention of the Cuban Electricity Company by the revolutionary Antonio Guiteras on a similar date in 1934.

The complex economic situation in Cuba, accentuated by the intensification of the U.S. blockade, is reflected with special harshness in this activity and has its direct effect on the interruption of the electric service.

In this context, the workers of the trade dedicate long days to the rehabilitation of the power generating plants, and to the search for their own innovations to counteract the technological obsolescence and the impossibility of carrying out all the planned maintenance work.

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