None of the 450 workers have been paid since the factory's closure. Amico has used thugs and even bombs to intimidate workers who have been protesting in the vicinity of the closed factory. The protest leaders have received constant death threats. The union has urged most workers to remain at home claiming that it will reach a settlement with the company. The company is a joint venture with the Japanese Onomichi Dockyard Company, which agreed to train 50 Sri Lankan employees each year in Japan.
Management is, however, proposing alternative training programs in Thailand and India.
The IDWU opposed the change and took strike action on April 25. The company claims that the union violated the collective agreement and that its action disrupted the building of naval vessels for the military's war effort. Indonesian Reebok employees occupy government building Sacked workers from PT Kong Tai, a producer of Reebok shoes, have pledged to continue their occupation of part of the legislative building in Jakarta after police evicted them on Tuesday night, May 9. They are demanding that the company give them severance pay. The 4,760 workers were dismissed without any entitlements last October.