Syndicates say the minimum basket for a worker costs RD$29,000
They insist they are not going to the CNS meeting and deny that they are boycotting
Diario Libre
SANTO DOMINGO. The labor syndicates will not go to the meeting of the National Committee on Salaries (CNS) tomorrow. They will concentrate on the First of May march and they say that the basic family basket is RD$29,000 and not the RD$10,400 as stated by the Central Bank.
This was stated by Rafael-Pepe-Abreu, the president of the National Confederation of Syndicate Unity (CNUS), and the spokesman for the other unions. Abreu said that lunch for a worker and his family that consisted of rice, beans, and poultry, seasonings, salad and water, costs RD$237.50 a day or RD$7,125 a month.
For a dinner of plantains, salami, oil and water the cost will be RD$160 a day and RD$4,800 a month. Adding up the total food bill and non-alcoholic beverages, the total comes to RD$14,955.
According to what he said the average family rent is RD$3,500, and in electricity and water they have to budget some RD$600. LPG for cooking costs RD$1,100. The subtotal was RD$5,200.
Transportation for 4 persons costs RD$1,600 a month. For snacks for the children at school they have to spend RD$20 a day, equal to RD$1,320 a month, and the school uniform costs RD$500.
This data does not include expenses for medicines, clothes and entertainment, said Abreu, after saying that the Central Bank does not have a family basket, but rather an approximate idea of what the people say that they consume and then they average that out.
He says that there have been no signs from management regarding a change in their proposal of a 13% increase above what the minimum wage should increase, but there are no signals beyond this. The unions deny that they are boycotting the wage discussions as management accused them of doing last Tuesday.
This was stated by Rafael-Pepe-Abreu, the president of the National Confederation of Syndicate Unity (CNUS), and the spokesman for the other unions. Abreu said that lunch for a worker and his family that consisted of rice, beans, and poultry, seasonings, salad and water, costs RD$237.50 a day or RD$7,125 a month.
For a dinner of plantains, salami, oil and water the cost will be RD$160 a day and RD$4,800 a month. Adding up the total food bill and non-alcoholic beverages, the total comes to RD$14,955.
According to what he said the average family rent is RD$3,500, and in electricity and water they have to budget some RD$600. LPG for cooking costs RD$1,100. The subtotal was RD$5,200.
Transportation for 4 persons costs RD$1,600 a month. For snacks for the children at school they have to spend RD$20 a day, equal to RD$1,320 a month, and the school uniform costs RD$500.
This data does not include expenses for medicines, clothes and entertainment, said Abreu, after saying that the Central Bank does not have a family basket, but rather an approximate idea of what the people say that they consume and then they average that out.
He says that there have been no signs from management regarding a change in their proposal of a 13% increase above what the minimum wage should increase, but there are no signals beyond this. The unions deny that they are boycotting the wage discussions as management accused them of doing last Tuesday.
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