JAKARTA - Minister of Manpower (Menaker) Yassierli emphasized that trade unions are not opponents of companies, but strategic partners in protecting workers' rights while supporting business continuity.
The Minister of Manpower Yassierli assessed that the existence of trade unions is an important instrument to ensure that workers' rights guaranteed by the state can be fulfilled through healthy industrial relations and constructive dialogue.
"The presence of trade unions is not to interfere with companies, but to ensure that the fundamental rights of workers that have been guaranteed by the state are met through a conducive dialogue," he said in a statement in Jakarta, Friday, quoted by Antara.
Furthermore, the Minister of Home Affairs added that good industrial relations are not enough to be harmonious, but must develop into collaborative and transformative.
This means that workers and companies need to have a common vision to increase productivity, innovation, and competitiveness.
"We want industrial relations to be upgraded, not only harmonious, but also proactive and transformative, where workers and companies have a common vision to improve competitiveness," said Yassierli.
The man who is also a Professor at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) said that so far many industrial relations have stopped at the harmonious level, namely the achievement of an agreement between workers and management.
In fact, he continued, this condition is not enough to optimally encourage productivity and innovation.
Therefore, the signing of the Collective Labor Agreement (PKB) between the trade unions and the company is also valued as an important momentum to strengthen collaboration between companies and workers in creating a productive, inclusive, and sustainable work environment.
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