Indonesian Metal Workers Strike

2012-10-09 · first published in marxsite · 66 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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via Socialist Alternative (Australia) JAKARTA, Indonesia, 3 October: Workers from the Indonesian Metal Workers’ Federation (FSPMI) join a national strike involving some 2 million workers. The strike’s demands are for increases in the official minimum wage, an end to all outsourcing arrangements and the extension of the implementation of new health insurance legislation to the whole working population, with insurance premiums to be paid by employers.

The capture this was recovered from