Anirista is a full member of the National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR)
National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR). Organization to promote and guide the creative initiative of Cuban workers towards the search for solutions to important economic and social problems and for the defense of the country.
It is a social, voluntary and selective organization where its members approve their own regulations, discuss and make agreements, periodically elect their leaders and agree on their directives under the principles of centralism and union democracy. It carries out its activities under the direction of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) and is governed by its statutes.
In order to achieve its goal of contributing to the substitution of spare parts and equipment imports, ANIR has the following objectives:
- To develop to the maximum the creative initiative of the workers, in such a way that it favors the development of innovations, rationalizations or solutions based on the saving of resources of all kinds, the recovery and manufacture of equipment, machinery and spare parts and the maintenance of existing technologies; in such a way that they allow the increase of production, labor productivity, the substitution of imports and the best productive practices.
- To organize innovators and rationalizers with the active participation of the union in those labor collectives with conditions to do so.
- To incessantly disseminate the efforts made by innovators and rationalizers in order to favor the generalization of their results and that they be recognized and stimulated in due time for their work.
Background
The National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR) has its antecedents closely linked to the revolutionary triumph, when the workers with their decisive creative activity guaranteed the vitality of the economy in the face of the exodus of technicians and the shortage of spare parts, resulting from the actions of Yankee imperialism to stifle the nascent Revolution.
In the gestation and development of the Association played a decisive role the ideas of the Captain of the Working Class Lázaro Peña and Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, who was proclaimed Honorary President in the Constitutive Conference on October 8, 1976, where an agreement of the historic 13th Congress of the CTC was fulfilled, constituting a remarkable step in the organization of those efforts and has also allowed a significant contribution of those talented workers in these years to the economy and defense, integrated in the Science, Technology and Innovation System of the country.