Laborers threaten to strike

Tue, 29 May 2001, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (JP): Thousands of laborers staged a rally that
stretched from the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration to the
Hotel Indonesia roundabout on Monday, demanding better wages and
severance payments.

Grouped under the Indonesian Welfare Trade Unions and the All-
Indonesian Labor Unions, the laborers threatened to go on a
nationwide strike on June 11 this year if a 2001 ministerial
decree on severance and service payments was not revoked.

The protesting workers said that the new decree did nothing
for the welfare of laborers, unlike a former ministerial decree
legalized in 2000.

Laborers said that the former decree had been beneficial for
all manual workers in terms of service payments and severance
pay, but was seen as non-profitable for businessmen, who had
pushed for it to be reviewed. (ylt)

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