Mandarin workers stage strike

Mandarin workers stage strike

JAKARTA (JP): Nearly 300 employees from the Mandarin Oriental
Jakarta hotel staged a strike yesterday over several demands that
the management has yet to meet.

A housewife who wanted to order a cake told The Jakarta Post
yesterday that the hotel was not taking any orders because most
of the bakery's employees were on strike.

The strike was said to have started at 7:30 a.m. in all
departments of the hotel except the kitchen, which was still
cooking for the guests.

According to an RCTI report at 6:30 p.m. yesterday, the
morning shift employees were asking the management not to fire
hotel employees without clear justification and not to hire too
many expatriate managers.

The Post was unable to reach the hotel's management or public
relations officials for comment but one of the managers who asked
to remain anonymous denied that any strike had been called.

"There was no strike. It was only a problem with the
management," she said.(yns/14)