CUBA
SNTAP (Havana Division)
The Provincial Union of Public Administration Workers (Havana Division) is working with the intention of becoming a paradigm of quality, efficiency and professionalism in services and benefits offered to leaders, workers and visitors, as well as in control and rational use of material-financial resources in custody or available for the development of the work.
Their mission is to mobilize the workers affiliated to the Union to comply with the economic plans and the improvement of quality services to our people. While representing them in front of the state, society and their employees. In the year 2020, they began a 4-year project which aims to provide:
A workplace health and safety advocacy training for shop Steward's from Havana's municipal workers.
Assistance to overcome effects of the US trade embargo of the island by sending shipments of scarce supplies needed by the union to effectively represent its members.
CoDev Program Area: Human and Labour Rights
Canadian Partners: CUPE Global Justice Fund & CUPE BC (since 1995)
SNTECD
The Cuban National Union of Education, Science and Sports Workers is a national union representing education, cultural and sports workers with the main goal of contributing to the professional development of its members, mobilizing unionized teachers to improve public education, aspects of labour legislation and working conditions.
Partner since 1998, programming in the past has focused on supporting SNTECD’s Centre for Documentation, Resources, Professional Development and Leadership Training (CDICEC), exchange of curriculum specialists that helped design a new English Language teaching curriculum for the country, and support for their National Conference and shop steward training program.
Currently CoDev is organizing the collection and export of supplies, equipment and spare parts that SNTECD needs to sustain their professional development and shop stewards’ training program. As well as the organization of a Canadian teachers’ delegation to participate in the International Conference of Education “Pedagogía” which brings together thousands of educators to learn about innovative pedagogical work and challenges taking place around the Americas.
CoDev Program Area: Education — Institutional Strengthening and Organizational Capacity Building
Canadian partners: BCTF