164,000 workers quit PT Jamsostek<\/p>\n
KUDUS, Central Java: More than 164,000 employees of cigarette
\nfactories in the city yesterday announced they were withdrawing
\nfrom the state social security program PT Jamsostek.<\/p>\n
Mohammad As'ad, the chairman of the trade union in the
\ntobacco, cigarette, food and beverage sector, said here yesterday
\nthat the workers would withdraw all the money appropriated from
\ntheir salaries for the insurance program and would establish
\ntheir own social security program.<\/p>\n
\"We quit the social security insurance scheme run by PT
\nJamsostek because the company's management was not transparent in
\nmanaging the workers' money,\" he said, pointing out that funds
\nfrom PT Jamsostek were used to finance the deliberations of the
\ncontroversial labor law.<\/p>\n
However Jamsostek's chief representative in the city, Henry,
\nsaid that he had yet to receive any statement from the workers on
\ntheir exodus from the state insurance company.<\/p>\n
\"It's their right to quit the social security program,\" he
\nsaid, as quoted by Antara. (rms)<\/p>",
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