PINAR DEL RIO, February 19 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, Lux InfoPress) -
Workers at sawmill No. 22 in the city of Pinar del Río work under unsafe
conditions because managers bypass safety procedures, charged here independent
labor organizers from the Federación de Plantas Eléctricas, Gas,
Agua, y Anexos de Cuba.
Although the charges extend to several areas of working conditions, the
problem most seriously affecting worker safety concerns the log-cutting blade,
which has broken several times and been welded back together. Established safety
procedures call for the blades to be replaced and not repaired; given their high
rotational speed, repaired blades could fail catastrophically. In spite of the
fact that the sawmill produces wood that is sold in the hard currency market,
administrators apparently don’t have the dollars to replace the blades.
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