The fifth round of talks between the Dominican Management Confederation (Copardom) and the union leaders representing the labor sector ended yesterday, Monday 25 March without any agreement on a salary increase, according to Diario Libre.
The representatives of the CNUS the CNTD and the CASC unions will present their proposal for a 30% salary increase to the National Salary Committee. “Management talks about the numbers that gives them an accumulated inflation of 8%, this is just something they are saying, it is a way for them to offer a suggestion, but it is not a formal proposal,” stated the CASC secretary general, Jose Luis Leon, who said that they have to add union freedom, social security and cost controls to the discussions. The workers’ representative reported that they would meet again with the directors of Copardom on 5 April in order to discuss their proposals.
Copardom president Jaime Gonzalez said that in the proposal that they are talking about, they are not just talking about the minimum wage. “There is a commitment to the business sector to recover the purchasing power that the Dominican worker has lost over these last two years and based on this, we have been analyzing things,” he said.