Panarub workers rally for JPK

Panarub workers rally for JPK

TANGERANG: Some 300 workers of PT Panarub, a company that
produces Adidas shoes in Pasar Baru, Tangerang municipality,
staged a rally at the factory compound on Friday to demand health
allowances (JPK).

The rally degenerated into a clash with dozens of security
personnel and management staff when the latter tried to block the
workers' way into the factory.

No one was injured during the clash because several police
officers managed to calm the angry workers.

As the rally started at 1 p.m, the workers, from the Shoe
Factory Workers Association (Perbupas) stood in rows for two
hours at the factory gate. While carrying dozens of posters and
banners, they sang labor movement songs and made speeches to
express their demands.

"We have repeatedly delivered our demands in a written
statement to the management and have even asked the municipal
manpower agency to force the management to accede to them, but to
no avail," Ngadinah, Perbupas secretary told The Jakarta Post.

The management promised to award the JPK to workers last
December, but they had demanded it in July last year, she said,
adding that the workers had long been awaiting the JPK
allowance.--JP