Fired drivers fail to meet legislators

Fired drivers fail to meet legislators

JAKARTA (JP): Twelve drivers of Gamya Taxi and their families on Thursday failed to meet legislators at the House of Representatives building to air their complaints over their dismissal by the company.

They planned to meet legislators Budiharyanto and Sri Sumarni of the ruling Golkar faction. But the two legislators were not around.

The drivers were among 40 employees who were fired by PT Gamya Taxi for allegedly organizing a strike to protest the company's refusal to allow them to form a workers' union.

Novry Syamsuddin, one of the workers, said that they had filed reports on the matter with the Jakarta office of the manpower ministry and the national commission on human rights. (29)