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June 7, 2001



FROM CUBA

Nickel industry workers pay for their employers' misdeeds

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, June 5 (Juan Carlos Garcell, APLO) - How well workers in the nickel industry in eastern Cuba eat depends on whether their employers have their finances in order.

"We feel discriminated, because in the workers' dining halls some can eat meat and others can't, depending on whether their units have outstanding debts," said one worker who asked to remain anonymous.

Officials in charge of the dining halls confirmed that the food served the workers depends on whether the units they work for have an outstanding dollar-denominated debt.

"Workers whose units have paid their debt undoubtedly will eat better, while those working for indebted units will get poor food. Those are the orders from above," said one source.

The measure has provoked some protests and reportedly some workers are refusing to eat at the dining halls. "This is punishing us for reasons beyond our control. Why pay dues to the union if it does not defend us?" said one worker.

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