Nightclub workers go on strike

Nightclub workers go on strike

BANDUNG, West Java: Thousands of hostesses stayed off the job
at nightclubs and entertainment centers around the city to occupy
the provincial legislature building in protest of their
employers' plan to lay them off during the upcoming Ramadhan
fasting month.

The protesters, mostly the staff members of pubs, discotheques
and massage parlors, demanded the provincial legislative council
press their employers to cancel a plan to lay them off for
financial reasons.

"We call on the Bandung municipal administration to allow us
to work through Ramahan because we won't have any money to
celebrate the Idul Fitri holidays if we're laid off," one
protester, Gunawan, said.

He also said the local administration should review the bylaw
banning entertainment centers from operating during the fasting
month.

Syachruddin, a councillor, pledged to discuss the problem with
the local administration and to seek other alternative solutions.
-- Antara