The comment I have to make on that is that in talking to the workers and forwarding issues up from the workplace around issues in Cuba, the workers themselves feel pretty empowered. That's the impression I get from them: they feel fairly empowered.
When I look at it, I look at it in the sense of in Canada the unions protest against government decisions--we come to Parliament Hill, we try to influence governments on labour laws and other different things--whereas down there protest is more “pro” than “test”. They feel that the government is something they own, and it's working for them. It's similar to what we are in Canada. Workers don't agree with everything the government does, and neither do workers there, but they have a system, I found from them, that they work within for change.