who build the world • the workers

More than 7 thousand 500 construction workers They died in Qatar As a result of the poor working conditions in the works that raise the stadiums that will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In Peru, organized crime killed 21 union leaders of the sector in its eagerness to control the profitable contracts resulting from construction; While in India more than 200 million protesters took to the streets in 2019 Protest against labor laws It was imposed by the neoliberal government headed by Narendra Modi.

This fact, and more, was discussed at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Building and Building Materials Workers (UITBBfor its acronym in French) which met this weekend in Havana.

As we work for a future of social justice and a new society, we must remember our anti-imperialist, neoliberal, and anti-fascist stance. Born in Milan, Italy in 1949, today it has 10 million members worldwide, including 176,000 Cubans belonging to the National Federation of Construction Workers (SNTC).

Papanicolaou said that Cuba has been a beacon of struggle since the glorious revolution led by Fidel Castro, it lights the way for all of us, and that is why it will always have the support and friendship of the workers of the world. Workers.

The document presented by the union leader at the opening denounced the hypocrisy of European policy that accepts Ukrainian immigrants and rejects Africans, saying: “For us, all people are equal.” He condemned the war, which led to an increase in the prices of basic products such as milk, bread, and gas, as well as building materials. He demanded the dissolution of NATO, which, with some countries, encourages the development of the arms industry, while “it is the poorest classes of society who pay with blood the price of imperialist wars.”

During the sessions they partnered with the SNTC Board of Directors, the main host; With members of the National Secretariat of the Counter-Terrorism Committee led by the Second Secretary, Isdalis Rodriguez; They received a telephonic thank you for the “courageous and supportive gesture to come to Cuba” from the Secretary-General of the Counter-Terrorism Committee, Ulysses Gillarte de Nascimento, who was away from the capital “on urgent assignments related to the national electrical system,” he explained.

The event was attended by nearly twenty delegates from 12 countries (Cyprus, Greece, Vietnam, Chile, Uruguay, India, Peru, Bangladesh, Portugal, Colombia and Gabon), who got acquainted with the work of the state socialist companies Battalion Blas Roca and Aguas. de la Habana, as well as independent actors and cooperatives in the construction sector.

In conclusion, a resolution was approved in support of Cuba condemning the economic, commercial and financial embargo of the United States, and the persistent hostility of imperialism against the socialist project of the Greater Antilles.

UITBB was created at the founding congress in Milan (Italy) held from 14 to 16 July 1948. It consists of national federations or trade unions in the construction, timber, building materials and construction industries. related activities. It fights all forms of exploitation and injustice, supports social progress, human dignity, trade union rights and democracy, peoples’ right to self-determination, and peace.