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        "msgid": "thai-workers-demand-help-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-09-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "Thai workers demand help",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Thai workers demand help BANGKOK (Reuter): About 2,000 workers rallied in Bangkok yesterday to demand government help, saying they have been hard hit by Thailand's economic woes. The disgruntled workers, mostly from factories and state enterprises, threatened to bring \"hundreds of thousands of laborers to the streets\" if the government did not heed their demands.",
        "content": "<p>Thai workers demand help<\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK (Reuter): About 2,000 workers rallied in Bangkok<br>\nyesterday to demand government help, saying they have been hard<br>\nhit by Thailand's economic woes.<\/p>\n<p>The disgruntled workers, mostly from factories and state<br>\nenterprises, threatened to bring \"hundreds of thousands of<br>\nlaborers to the streets\" if the government did not heed their<br>\ndemands.<\/p>\n<p>They asked the government to consider cutting the value-added<br>\ntax from 10 percent to 7 percent, delaying its privatization<br>\nscheme for state enterprises, controlling the prices of goods,<br>\nimproving welfare for workers and scrapping its plan to float<br>\nwages.<\/p>\n<p>\"This rally is a warning to the government that it has so far<br>\ndone nothing for the poor,\" Somsak Kosaisook, leader of the<br>\nworkers' movement committee told Reuters.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/thai-workers-demand-help-1447893297",
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