Workers on strike to get allowance

Workers on strike to get allowance

JAMBI: Approximately 30 of the 40 employees with water company
PDAM Tirta Batanghari in Batanghari regency have been on strike
since Monday, demanding that the company pay them a "family
allowance".

The protesting employees said the company had not been paying
them their family allowances as regulated by the regency
government decree No. 15/2002. They pledged to continue the
strike until the company met their demands.

"The employees taking part in the strike will be given strict
punishment because they've disrupted the company's production
activities," the company's director Zulkarnain told The Jakarta
Post on Tuesday.

He said the employees' salaries were based on the company's
financial situation and it was still financially dependent on the
regental administration. -- JP