Singamip workers take their complaint to DPR<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Some 200 workers of the PT Singamip Jaya
\nEnterprise Electronic company on the third day of their strike
\nyesterday expressed their grievances to the House of
\nRepresentatives.<\/p>\n
Meeting with no less than eight legislators from the
\nIndonesian Democratic faction (PDI), the workers listed their
\ndemands, which included a daily food allowance of Rp 1,500 (57
\nU.S. cents), and transportation annuity of Rp 1,000.<\/p>\n
The workers' spokesman, Adil Cahyono, said since 1991 they
\nwere only given a coupon worth Rp 100 for their food allowance
\nand that the company had not provided transportation money.<\/p>\n
Other demands included easier permission for vacations and
\nmenstrual leave.<\/p>\n
\"In our company there's no menstrual leave,\" Nurtini, one of
\nthe mostly young women who participated in the demonstration,
\ntold The Jakarta Post yesterday.<\/p>\n
The company, located near Bogor, West Java, has a labor force
\nof about 3,500 and produces electrical components which it
\nsupplies to Sony.<\/p>\n
The workers were also demanding the right to form a union free
\nof interference from management.<\/p>\n
\"We want it to be free from the collusion of the businessmen,\"
\nAdil Cahyono said.<\/p>\n
Workers yesterday also claimed to legislators that they were
\ntreated unfairly. Ujang, a worker from the company's mechanics
\ndivision, said he was fined Rp 2,000 because he forgot to wear
\nhis identification card at work.<\/p>\n
Separately, an executive at the company, identifying himself
\nas Shaffiq, told the Post over the phone that the company
\nwelcomed the workers desire to form a union and that it was the
\nworkers themselves who had failed to do so on their own accord.<\/p>\n
He argued that the strike was really being incited by Agus
\nPonindar, a worker who had been discharged by the company for his
\nirresponsibility at work.<\/p>\n
Shaffiq, the company's production manager, further refuted
\nearlier reports that 2,000 workers had joined the strike,
\ncontending that only a dwindling 200 had walked off the assembly
\nline on the first day. (03\/mds)<\/p>",
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