[asia-apec 552] Fw: Coca Suki Restaurant's workers staged demonstration

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> From: LBH Surabaya <lbhsby at indo.net.id>
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> Subject: Coca Suki Restaurant's workers staged demonstration
> Date: 06 August 1998 23:38
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> Dear Brothers and Sisters,
> 
> At least 300 workers from Coca Suki Restaurant in Jakarta and 40 workers
in
> Surabaya staged demonstrations since yesterday. They demanded 8 points :
> 1. Management reformed
> 2. Increased wage 
> 3. Overtime wage
> 4. Refusing long working hours
> 5. Social Security
> 6. Wage receipt
> 7. Bonus
> 8. Menstruation leave
> 
> Coca Suki Restaurant is a Thai international restaurant, and having
several
> branches in several countries : Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore,
> Taiwan, USA, Myanmar, and Australia. In Indonesia, Coca Suki has 7
outlets,
> 5 in Jakarta, 1 in Bandung, and 1 in Surabaya.
> 
> In Surabaya, workers only paid Rp 5,000 per-day (US $ 0.30). The
management
> opressed workers to work overtime until 13 hours a day without paid
overtime
> wage. During the strike in Surabaya, around 6 trucks of policemen and 1
> truck of military guarding the restaurant.
> 
> The workers in Jakarta had a union, but they didn't have in Surabaya.
They
> try to set up a union soon.
> 
> In solidarity,
> 
> Poengky Indarti. 
>     
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