Fired drivers meet legislators

Fired drivers meet legislators

JAKARTA (JP): Twelve former drivers of the Gamya Taxi company finally managed to meet with members of the House of Representatives on Thursday to lodge a protest over their dismissal from the taxi firm which, they claim, was unfair.

The meeting with the legislators was held on Thursday, after the workers failed to get a hearing on Wednesday -- not on Thursday, as reported on this page yesterday.

At the meeting the drivers, who were accompanied by their families, said that they were among 130 Gamya Taxi employees who had been fired between April and June last year.

"The mass dismissal was carried out after the employees took the initiative of setting up a branch of the All-Indonesia Workers' Union at the company," Novri Samsudin, one of the drivers, said.

At the meeting the fired drivers were received by members of the Indonesian Democratic Party faction, including Tiop Harun Sitorus, Marsinggih Marnadi and I Gusti Ngurah Sara. (hhr)