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09-25-2006, 06:20 PM
The renewed call for a transport strike by members of two of the nation's larger transport unions has caused a rift in their normally solid united front. Conatra, headed by Anthony Marte and Fenatrado, headed by Blas Peralta are calling for a strike this morning in protest at the Supreme Court's decision to jail the union leaders for their part in the Plan Renove eight billion-peso fraud case. Union leaders Ramon Perez Figuereo of the SNTU and Juan Hubieres of Fenetrano have asked their members not to go on strike. Antonio Marte was sentenced to three years in jail and was fined RD$4.0 million for his part in the Renove fraud.
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