Teachers demand improved welfare

Teachers demand improved welfare

PEKANBARU, Riau: Hundreds of teachers in the province's
Communication Forum for Education Reform staged a demonstration
at the provincial council compound here to demand the provincial
administration and big companies help improve their welfare.

The workers also demanded the administration stop cutting
their monthly wages for unreasonable reasons.

The chairman of the provincial council, Darwis Rida, who
received the demonstrators, pledged to fight to improve their
social welfare and asked major corporations in the province to
contribute.

Mizar, representing the teachers, expressed regret that PT
Caltex Pacific Indonesia, an oil mining company operating in the
province, had stopped its contribution to teachers employed in
schools in the mining area.

"We expect the company to also be committed to improving the
quality of human resources in the province," he said, as quoted
by Antara.