Workers protest contract system

JAKARTA: Some 2,000 workers of PT EDS Manufacturing Indonesia, a cable producer on Jl. Raya Serang, Balaraja district, staged a rally at the regency manpower agency office here on Thursday to demand that the company's contract system for workers be scrapped.

The workers, mostly females, filed a complaint with the office because the company's management had not responded to their demand although they had been on strike for five days.

Sriwati, who has been working for two years with the company, said the workers also demanded a transportation allowance and a leave allowance. In addition, they asked the company to allow them to propose a work agreement between workers and the management.

The company human resources manager Slamet said that the management would dismiss the striking workers because the company regulation only tolerated absenteeism for two days.--JP