Complaint about labor union

Complaint about labor union

Acting for and in the name of Pondok Indah Hospital (RSPI),
hereby we, the corporate lawyers of RSPI, would like to respond
to the news item Hospital staff complain about ban on labor
unions published in The Jakarta Post on July 5, 2002.

The management of RSPI has never banned its workers from
establishing a labor union, as long as the process of
establishing it was transparent and pursuant to the applicable
legal procedures, and in accordance with the prevailing norms and
ethics with the environment of said hospital.

Edi Waluyo -- as an employee of RSPI who established a labor
union -- was never transparent with the said RSPI management in
setting up a labor union for pharmacy and health workers, SP
FARKES RSPI, and did not notify the management of RSPI that he
would establish a labor union, as required in the decree from the
manpower minister, No. PER.01/MEN/1994.

The aforementioned management, in this matter, never
intimidated Edi Waluyo, either as an employee of RSPI nor as the
functionary of said labor union, while the case of the firing of
Edi Waluyo had no connection with his position as the chief of
the SP FARKES RSPI. But the name concerned is presumed to have
committed a criminal action against his senior. Similarly,
Muchsin is also in the process of being dismissed.

Both cases are purely a matter of manpower issues and have no
relation to the union they established.

H. SUDIRMAN MUNIR, Advocate, Metro Yustitia, Law Office, Jakarta