Santo Domingo.- North Region Industrialists Association (AIREN) president Lina Garcia on Wednesday warned that 2012 will be a year charged with challenges for that sector and the institution, such as getting a pledge from the Administration which will take office starting August, to made the productive sectors’ competitiveness a national priority, define commitments and, "mostly that it adjusts its practices to those commitments by increasingly distancing itself from a practice  of political cronyism."

"We’ll continue to insist on an amended labor code that is obsolete, which implies burdens on the productive sector and which, in addition, doesn’t generate significant benefits for the labor sector in terms of more formal jobs and  greater security in it relations," Garci'a said.

The business leader affirmed that they’ll have to continue confronting the mafias which take shelter under what she stressed is an obsolete Code, but that it’s necessary "to move the rug" and continue insisting "in depoliticizing the topic, leaving populism aside and confronting it with a vision that a win- win code is possible for employers and workers."

Garcia affirmed that the AIREN will continue demanding the authorities’ pledge to achieve greater fairness in the distribution of government spending, adding that the industrial sector is committed to generate more wealth, comply with its fiscal obligations, but also that the authorities invest to a large extent, in the region which pays its taxes."