Massive Strike Planned at Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port

[Vanhelsing]

Indonesia's main port Tanjung Priok faces a massive strike with planned combined industrial action by workers at both the Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) and the smaller ICTSI-PBM Adipurusa joint venture terminal.

ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) member union Serikat Pekerja Jakarta International Container Terminal (SPJICT) will be striking from today August 3 till August 10 and ITF released a statement saying that it is mobilising international support for dock workers in Indonesia.

The workers say they are striking over ruthless attacks to their rights – in particular to pension rights and performance bonuses – which terminal management has been pursuing in the course of negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement.

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