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SANTA CLARA, June 17 (www.cubanet.org) - Workers at the Alfredo López
Brito cigar factory in Cabaiguán, central Cuba, have not been paid their
salaries in convertible [hard] currency for the months of February through May
due to lack of money, said dissident Noel Salabarría.
At a meeting June 13 with the provincial administrators of Cubatabaco, the
government's tobacco monopoly, factory administrators were instructed to tell
their employees that the hard currency salaries were not being paid, and that
the factory's dining facility would be closed, because Cubatabaco had no money.
According to Salabarría, workers were predictably unhappy with the
decision. One worker said: "We can't buy on credit at the dollar stores, so
our families will have to cook without oil, and go without bathing, washing
clothes, or shoes."
Typically, cooking oil, shoes, and personal hygiene products are seldom if
ever available outside the dollar economy.
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