NewsWhore
08-01-2012, 03:50 PM
Hundreds of sugar cane workers gathered in Santo Domingo's Parque Independencia yesterday, 31 July 2012, demanding government pensions for having worked in the sugar industry for decades.
According to Jesus Nunez, coordinator of the Union of Sugar Cane Workers, the elderly workers had planned to march to the Presidential Palace but decided to call a halt to the idea as the vice minister, Sandra Severino, had promised them that 1,425 pensions would be granted over the next two weeks.
He warned that if this did not happen, he would hold a vigil outside the Presidential Palace until 14 August and said that although their struggle was peaceful, they would not put up with political maltreatment.
Nunez said they were waiting for 4,011 pensions of RD$5,017 per month.
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According to Jesus Nunez, coordinator of the Union of Sugar Cane Workers, the elderly workers had planned to march to the Presidential Palace but decided to call a halt to the idea as the vice minister, Sandra Severino, had promised them that 1,425 pensions would be granted over the next two weeks.
He warned that if this did not happen, he would hold a vigil outside the Presidential Palace until 14 August and said that although their struggle was peaceful, they would not put up with political maltreatment.
Nunez said they were waiting for 4,011 pensions of RD$5,017 per month.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)