Cuba preparing for extensive job cuts

Cuba is calling workers across the island to special meetings so that labour leaders can brief them on half a million government layoffs coming in the next six months and suggest ways that those fired can make a living.

The “workers’ assemblies” that began on September 15 include hundreds of meetings with state employees in union halls, government auditoriums and even basements or garages of state-run companies, according to reports in the state-run labour union newspaper Trabajadores.