Legal victory for the Dominican Republic air traffic controllers after seven years’ struggle

ITF affiliated Dominican Air Traffic Controllers Association (ADCA) celebrates a bittersweet legal victory for it, 28 members, after waging a seven-years long struggle for reinstatement. Back in 2013, ADCA alerted the authorities about a long list of their concerns about the shortcomings of their country’s air traffic control system that were placing the safety of […]


November 20, 2020

ITF backs Dominican Republic ATCs sacked over air safety warnings

The ITF is strongly backing the campaign by its affiliate the Dominican Air Traffic Controllers Association (ADCA) to win the reinstatement of air traffic controllers sacked by the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) 13 months ago. The union argues that the workers were sacked as punishment for publicly raising concerns in 2012 about deficiencies which […]


April 17, 2015

ITF urges action over Dominican Republic arrest and workers’ persecution

The ITF is urging unions to demonstrate their solidarity with persecuted air traffic controllers in the Dominican Republic after its regional secretary was arrested on 9 February just hours before he was due to give a joint press conference with the national trade union centre CNTD. Antonio Fritz was in the country on a fact-finding […]


February 13, 2015

ITF official arrested for investigating air traffic control problems in the Dominican Republic, is freed

Antonio Fritz, who was arrested this morning in the Dominican Republic during a fact finding mission to investigate air traffic control problems there, has now been released. He stated: “After seven hours in custody, and being asked why a foreigner is supporting Dominican Republic air traffic controllers, I have been released without charge. None of […]


February 10, 2015