UPDATE! Gran Mahakam Hotel, Jakarta - IUF's international action continues, Accor presses owners for changes to management practises at the hotel

Posted to the IUF website 23-Jun-2005

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Since early June, when the IUF first denounced union rights violations at the Gran Mahakam Hotel, 800 protest messages from all around the world have been sent to the owners of the Gran Mahakam hotel in support of the IUF-affiliated Gran Mahakam Hotel workers' union.

Contact between the IUF and the Accor Group which holds the management contract for the hotel has intensified during this period. Accor has now formally told the hotel owners that the policies pursued by the hotel's Human Resource manager do not match those promoted by Accor world-wide and contained in the Accor-IUF international agreement covering respect for trade union rights throughout Accor.

Whilst currently holding overall responsibility for the general management of the hotel through a management contract, Accor does not directly control the human resource functions which are run by a management team appointed by the hotel owners.

Accor has informed the IUF that they have formally requested that the hotel owners remove the current human resource management in order to facilitate a negotiated and fair end to the conflict. The IUF recognises these efforts by the Accor Group and supports and encourages the group's ongoing efforts to bring positive changes to the human resource policies at the hotel.

The IUF continues to make it clear to the hotel owners and to the Accor Group that it will continue to support its members at the Gran Mahakam with all and any means at its disposal. We have further informed all parties that we will seek to broaden the campaign locally and internationally in the event that no local resolution is found. We expect Accor to continue and to intensify its efforts to implement the important principles and practises that Accor consistently claims and that are contained in the global trade union rights agreement between the IUF and Accor.

To learn more about this dispute and to send a protest message, click here.