Hotel workers reject transfer

Hotel workers reject transfer

BOGOR: Five former employees of the Safari Garden Hotel angry
over being transferred from the hotel to Taman Safari Indonesia
took their complaint to the city council on Thursday.

Dadang, who had been a room attendant at the hotel for 14
years, said the hotel management failed to provide a reason for
the transfer. He also said the five transferred employees were
the cofounders of the Reform Tourism Union at the hotel.

"We do not even know what our new positions will be (at Taman
Safari), but they will definitely not be what we are trained
for," Dadang said.

The transfer to Taman Safari, which is under the same
management as the hotel, was made in April.

The head of Reform Tourism Union in Bogor, Noval Rizal, said
the hotel management had long prohibited the establishment of a
union at the hotel.

The secretary of Bogor Council's Commission D overseeing
public welfare, Arief Munandar, said councillors would meet with
executives from the hotel to look into the matter. -- JP