Council to summon employer

TANGERANG: Tangerang Regency Legislative Council has summoned the executives of textile company PT Shinta Woosung as its workers have been on strike for the last two weeks.

"We will make them come and sit with us here to settle the dispute with the workers," the council's Commission E chairman for people's welfare, Ozi Saeroji, said on Tuesday.

He said the council was mandated by Law No. 13/2003 on the settlement of manpower disputes to summon executives of a company in a protracted strike.

About 700 workers, mostly women, are demanding improvement in employee benefits. They staged a protest at the council last week. -- JP