Strike at Bank Dana Asia

Strike at Bank Dana Asia

JAKARTA (JP): Though the central bank has yet to announce
which banks are to be closed on Saturday, the employees of Bank
Dana Asia here staged a sitdown on Thursday demanding fair
severance payments from their management.

"We are holding this peaceful sit-in to demand that Bank Dana
Asia's management and shareholders give us fair compensation,"
Mrs. Ani, one of the 300 workers taking part in the strike, told
Antara.

Another employee said Dana Asia had been put into the C
category of banks with negative capital of more than 25 percent
which would be closed on Saturday.

Mrs. Ani added that two employees representing their
colleagues in the Jakarta and Medan offices were received on
Thursday by the bank's management for negotiations about their
severance money.