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Outsourcing main issue on labor day
Antara News - May 1, 2011
Bandung, West Java – Outsourcing was the main issue raised by thousands of workers in the Indonesian Trade Union Alliance Congress (KASBI) commemorating international Labor Day in Bandung on Sunday.
"Just revoke the work contract system, do you agree friends?" asked Daryanto, KASBI field coordinator, in a street rally in front of the Bandung city administration gate on Jalan Diponegoro on Sunday.
During the May Day rally, the workers raised seven demands including the revocation of outsourcing.
"We, of the May 1 Action Committee, refuse layoffs and low wages. Stop the crack down on trade unions. Manpower supervisors should carry out real work, act assertively, provide working capital and modern agricultural technology, and set commodity basic prices for farmers," Daryanto said.
Around 100 university students from the Popular Struggle Front also held rallies in front of the City administration in Bandung relating. Thousands of police officers were on guard around the city administration building.
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