“Dare to struggle. Dare to win”

05/02/2010
I've been in Jakarta for two very busy days now. I was met by Hema from the IUF and members of the Executive of our Sister Union the FSPM including the General Secretary, Benny Nasution.
Between them they soon got me "organised". Yanti Irawan, a FSPM staffer was assigned to be my "minder" and to make sure that I kept to schedule. She did a great job, so much so that I have visited five 5 stars and one super luxury hotel and met and interviewed 20 union members and officials!

Hotel Workers Around the World: Jakarta


Last night I went to a very special cafe in Bandung. The café is called BJ’s but it is better known to its patrons as the ”Solidarity Café” and the story behind it should be an inspiration to us all.

Hotel Workers Around the World

Kevin in Indonesia 09/02/2010

Now and then we hear complaints from some of our members that it is too difficult to organise in the hotel sector in London. Every now and then we should remind them that in comparison to some of our Sisters and Brothers in other countries we have it easy. 

"March for the Alternative".....JOBS....GROWTH....JUSTICE.......On Saturday March 26th, 2011 we will march for "The Alternatives"

The country faces huge job cuts because of the policy of the Con/Dem coalition.

London's hotels "cash in".......London's hotels "pays its staff less".

On December 24th the London"Evening Standard", quoting a report from TRI Hospitality Consulting says that "London's Hotels are the most profitable in Europe, industry statistics show".


Four star and Five star London hotels make a profit of £115 per night. This is 70% higher than the next most profitable European city, Amsterdam.

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