What outsourcing means in Indonesia
I found this post on the AFL-CIO weblog interesting.
During a visit to Bandung, an important manufacturing city in west Java, I talked with Budi, a plant-level leader in a garment factory that turns out products for Nike and Adidas (Indonesians frequently have only one name, and names have been changed here to prevent retribution against workers). Budi told me:
Our biggest problem today is the increase in outsourced and contracted labor.
In Indonesia, “outsourced” means workers are hired through labor-recruiting agencies, and contract workers are hired on fixed, short-term contracts, over and over again, in violation of Indonesian labor laws.
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