Several workers from Santiago de Cuba They were sanctioned for not attending the activists scheduled by the regime for May 1st.International Workers’ Day, reported Diario de Cuba.
Gisela Bermúdez, a worker at Laboratorios Oriente, was one of those affected. She said that, despite explaining that she could not leave her home due to lack of transportation and bread for her children, she was punished with a month without salary stimulation.
For her part, Olga Martínez, from the Serum and Parenteral Solutions Plant, was reprimanded because, according to the general director, Jorge Orestes Batista, “walking in the middle of a blackout—and at 2:00AM—the ten kilometers between the Plaza de la Revolución Antonio Maceo and the Abel Santamaría cast is no justification for missing such an important celebration.”
Another Cuban identified as Charles, a worker on the plaster bandage line, has his job in danger after saying that “a country with shortages of all kinds could not afford to concentrate the people so that they would faint from hunger and ingratiate themselves with government”.
Younger workers were also threatened with termination of their contracts and salary penalties.
In the educational sector, student Dayan was complained about for not attending the parade on Wednesday.
“As in the rest of the universities, in the Eastern one, teaching is not inclusive, but rather exclusive and ideologically subordinated to arbitrariness,” said the young man.
Likewise, Dr. Velázquez, professor at the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences, was threatened with expulsion from the center and told that “universities in Cuba are for revolutionaries.”
May 1st and the days leading up to its celebration were dates marked by repression, especially against activists and journalists.
