Teachers demand improved welfare<\/p>\n
PEKANBARU, Riau: Hundreds of teachers in the province's
\nCommunication Forum for Education Reform staged a demonstration
\nat the provincial council compound here to demand the provincial
\nadministration and big companies help improve their welfare.<\/p>\n
The workers also demanded the administration stop cutting
\ntheir monthly wages for unreasonable reasons.<\/p>\n
The chairman of the provincial council, Darwis Rida, who
\nreceived the demonstrators, pledged to fight to improve their
\nsocial welfare and asked major corporations in the province to
\ncontribute.<\/p>\n
Mizar, representing the teachers, expressed regret that PT
\nCaltex Pacific Indonesia, an oil mining company operating in the
\nprovince, had stopped its contribution to teachers employed in
\nschools in the mining area.<\/p>\n
\"We expect the company to also be committed to improving the
\nquality of human resources in the province,\" he said, as quoted
\nby Antara.<\/p>",
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