Labor unions will not attend meeting

[NewsWhore]

Union leaders have warned that they will not attend next Thursday's session of the National Salaries Commission (CNS). According to a report in Diario Libre, the union leaders will spend this week planning activities designed to pressurize employers into accepting a general wage increase. Rafael Abreu, the spokesman for the union's delegates in the CNS, told reporters that the unions would take a letter to the commission informing them that no decisions can be taken without the presence of the labor representatives. The unions are demanding a 25% wage hike for all private sector workers earning less than RD$30,000. Abreu admitted that the CNS is only authorized to deal with minimum wage issues, but he reminded reporters that there are special situations where employers are permitted to increase salaries at other levels, as occurred in November 2004.

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