FROM
CUBA
Havana glassworks dismantled; 900 workers
displaced
HAVANA, Cuba, October 25 (Víctor
Manuel Domínguez, Lux Info Press
/ www.cubanet.org) - Government authorities
have decreed that the "Orlando Cuéllar"
glassworks be dismantled and the facility
be turned into warehouse space for the Ministry
of Public Health, displacing 900 workers.
As the order is carried out, only 125 workers
remain at the plant that, according to independent
labor leaders, enjoyed great prestige for
the quality of its roducts.
The displaced workers have been sent home
with 60% of their pay for three months,
at the end of which they will have to find
new jobs.
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