Unions withdraw from all talks
Four union syndicates met with legislators
Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO. "As a result of what happened in the National Salary Committee, where the government sector and the private sector came to an agreement in order to impose a tariff to the minimum wage, the union movement decided to withdraw from the talks."
This was the expression by the president of the National Confederation of Syndicate Unity (CNUS), Rafael - Pepe - Abreu, during a meeting held yesterday with legislators, in a hotel in the capital.
During the activity, the union leaders warned the legislators that they should not carry out unilateral initiatives which seek the modification of the Labor Code "and above all which result in the reduction of the workers' rights."
According to Abreu, the decisions taken without the presence of the union sector are contradictory with the commitments contracted by the Dominican Republic as a result of the ratification of international agreements and especially with the dispositions in the labor chapter of the Central American and United States Free Trade treaty (DR - CAFTA).
He announced that the workers' withdrawal from the scenarios of the tripartite talks such as the National Social Security Council (CNSS), the Dominican Institute of Social Security (IDSS), INFOTEP, the Labor Advisory Council, the Economic and Social Council, including the process which is looking at the modification of the Labor Code.
He said that this situation came about as a result of the adoption in the National Salary Committee of Resolution 1/2015, which was the result of an agreement between the business sector and government.
"We are not in agreement with this resolution, or with its content, or with the procedure carried out, since the increase produced to the salary in this resolution does not permit the return of the workers' buying power in a significant manner," he added.
Abreu said that the situation has led to the breaking off the tripartite and social talks in the Dominican Republic.
He pointed out that the syndicates based their position on the committed word of the President of the Republic, Danilo Medina, after issuing Decreed 286/13 which creates the Special Commission for the Review and Updating of the Labor Code, which warns that any document that is to be sent to Congress regarding the reform of the Labor Code is to be the product of a consensus or of an agreement which comes from the Tripartite Dialogue.
Abreu feels that any amendment to the Code should be based on the benefits to the worker, instead of being prejudicial, "which is what the business community wants."
The National Deputy Guadalupe Valdes said that it is necessary to carry out the modifications because this is what is established by the Constitution, although he is not in agreement that this is a detriment to the workers.
This was the expression by the president of the National Confederation of Syndicate Unity (CNUS), Rafael - Pepe - Abreu, during a meeting held yesterday with legislators, in a hotel in the capital.
During the activity, the union leaders warned the legislators that they should not carry out unilateral initiatives which seek the modification of the Labor Code "and above all which result in the reduction of the workers' rights."
According to Abreu, the decisions taken without the presence of the union sector are contradictory with the commitments contracted by the Dominican Republic as a result of the ratification of international agreements and especially with the dispositions in the labor chapter of the Central American and United States Free Trade treaty (DR - CAFTA).
He announced that the workers' withdrawal from the scenarios of the tripartite talks such as the National Social Security Council (CNSS), the Dominican Institute of Social Security (IDSS), INFOTEP, the Labor Advisory Council, the Economic and Social Council, including the process which is looking at the modification of the Labor Code.
He said that this situation came about as a result of the adoption in the National Salary Committee of Resolution 1/2015, which was the result of an agreement between the business sector and government.
"We are not in agreement with this resolution, or with its content, or with the procedure carried out, since the increase produced to the salary in this resolution does not permit the return of the workers' buying power in a significant manner," he added.
Abreu said that the situation has led to the breaking off the tripartite and social talks in the Dominican Republic.
He pointed out that the syndicates based their position on the committed word of the President of the Republic, Danilo Medina, after issuing Decreed 286/13 which creates the Special Commission for the Review and Updating of the Labor Code, which warns that any document that is to be sent to Congress regarding the reform of the Labor Code is to be the product of a consensus or of an agreement which comes from the Tripartite Dialogue.
Abreu feels that any amendment to the Code should be based on the benefits to the worker, instead of being prejudicial, "which is what the business community wants."
The National Deputy Guadalupe Valdes said that it is necessary to carry out the modifications because this is what is established by the Constitution, although he is not in agreement that this is a detriment to the workers.
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