An editorial in El Dia newspaper on 11 October 2017 focuses on three important professional unions that should be setting an example for the rest of society and are doing the contrary. These are:
Dominican Medical Association (CMD) that groups medical staff at public hospitals. El Dia reports that the strike called this time by the CMD is for the difference of a wage increase for a handful of physicians that the board of the CMD has not been incapable of providing. The National Health Service that overseas public hospitals in the country, says that 369 physicians have not received the 15% increase because they show up with irregularities in the payroll and that the situation of each is being investigated.
The Dominican Federation of Students (FED), the student body at the state UASD university, announced it will not suspend their president, despite the later being under arrest for accusations of student fraud. Last week, the FED motivated student uprising at the UASD, forcing the closing of classes in protest of the case being heard in court.
It is now known that the Dominican Association of Professors (ADP) that groups public school teachers receives around RD$1.3 billion in quotas from the National Teachers Cooperative (Coopnama) over the past five years. The public school teachers cooperative receives more than RD$16 billion a year in retentions carried out by the Ministry to the wages of the public school teachers. El Dia reports that the teachers have the right to demand transparency in the way these funds have been managed.
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El Dia
11 October 2017
