NewsWhore
04-02-2009, 07:40 PM
Protests and a wildcat transport strike disrupted daily life in Santo Domingo yesterday during a week in which protests continued with demands for the government to meet its pledges. In the morning, labor organizations held a four-hour watch at Independence Park as part of their call for a private sector wage increase and in rejection of business sector lobbies to change the Dominican Labor Code. Representatives of several workers unions warned that they would not attend the Salary Committee meeting, on the grounds that it would only deal with an increase in the minimum wage and they felt that an across-the-board wage increase was needed.
During the afternoon, dozens of organizations that make up the Alternative Social Forum held a march through several poor neighborhoods demanding that the government fulfill a series of social pledges. The march, flanked and nearly surrounded by police, went ahead peacefully, with more than one hundred people taking part. At the end of the march, union leader Francisco Antonio Santos said that this was the first in a series of activities planned for the coming weeks, after Easter Week. While this was going on, the Fenatrano transport union, which also took part in the march, called a stop to their members' buses, claiming harassment by the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET). The surprise work stoppage meant that hundreds commuters had to depend on the OMSA bus service.
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During the afternoon, dozens of organizations that make up the Alternative Social Forum held a march through several poor neighborhoods demanding that the government fulfill a series of social pledges. The march, flanked and nearly surrounded by police, went ahead peacefully, with more than one hundred people taking part. At the end of the march, union leader Francisco Antonio Santos said that this was the first in a series of activities planned for the coming weeks, after Easter Week. While this was going on, the Fenatrano transport union, which also took part in the march, called a stop to their members' buses, claiming harassment by the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET). The surprise work stoppage meant that hundreds commuters had to depend on the OMSA bus service.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)