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FROM
CUBA
Cuban municipal services workers complain
about conditions
HAVANA, March 23 (Dorka Céspedes,
Lux Info Press / www.cubanet.org) - Municipal
service workers in Havana complain about
the ongoing deterioration in their working
conditions, which they say they cannot get
remedied no matter how often they appeal
to the various government dependencies.
Gaspar Jiménez and Manuel López
work in the department of street sanitation.
They say they cannot get work clothes and
that they have to buy their own brooms.
They start their work day at 4:00 a. m.
and work until noon. They describe their
work day as an ordeal because of the sheer
volume of refuse they find on the streets.
"Sometimes five days go by without
a garbage pick-up," said López.
"The garbage piles up, and gets full
of worms, and we don't even have gloves.
If this goes on, there'll be no one who'll
want to pick up the garbage."
By contrast, workers at the joint venture
between the Cuban government and Italian
investors, Aurora, which has a contract
to pick up garbage in Old Havana, a tourist
attraction, earn 30 pesos a day, get proper
work clothes and shoes, and even a bag of
scarce personal hygiene items as an incentive.
Garbage in Old Havana is picked up every
day.
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