Taken from Listín Diario
SANTO DOMINGO.-The National Federation of Tourism Workers (Fesitratur) announced that it will initiate legal action to prevent the withholding of 10% of tips that workers in that sector are legally entitled to, which employers are appropriating.
The president of this federation, Justo Carmona, said that, if tallied up, hotel owners and owners of other businesses in that sector of the economy have illegally pocketed millions of pesos, so he believes the time has come to stop this practice that harms workers.
Carmona made these statements during the assembly in which the Federation was established, in which delegates from eighteen unions, organized in the tourist areas of the country, participated.
At the meeting, resolutions were approved that were adopted as part of the work program of the new federation affiliated with the National Confederation of Dominican Workers (CNTD), declaring themselves in favor of the fight for union freedom and collective bargaining and that the government include them in its housing plans.
Resolutions were also approved that seek to promote the application of public policies to foster women's rights and promote gender equality, as well as to ensure the training and education of tourism workers through the National Institute of Technical and Professional Training.
The board was elected with José Justo Beltré Carmona as president, Máximo Donato Guillen, Félix Eduardo Viloria and Narciso Cabral as general secretary and finance secretary respectively.
Also Pedro José Brito Castro as director of mediation, negotiation and human rights, Rosell Johnson Santana, director of education, Doraliza Linares Severino, secretary of acts and correspondence, and Francisca Paula Fernández as director of Gender.
Also, Nicolás de la Rosa and Armando de León and Cándida María García, directors of cooperative promotion, policies for the protection of migrant workers and international relations, respectively.
The elected commissioners were Nelson Peralta and Bernardo Sosa, and for the disciplinary tribunal, Nery Núñez as judge, Juan Carlos Tiburcio as prosecutor, and Otoniel Javier Linares as secretary.
The coordinators of tourist centers are San Carpacio Sosa Pérez, Anastasio Muños Ramírez, Carlos Javier Acevedo Brea, Rubén Soriano Mejía, Bernardo Javier and Misael Evangelista.
