Construction Meaning 'Wages and Protest' in the Context of Tripartite over Bandung, West Java (Case Study of Tripartite Perspective in Bandung Raya)

摘要

Research purpose to elaborate on the meaning of "wages and protests" among workers, employers and government (Tripartite). By early 2017, the workers demonstrated against the Government Regulation No. 78/2015 about wages was considered incompatible with the aspirations of the workers in life worthy. In Bandung, West Java, thousands of workers took to the streets against the minimum wage City/district set West Java provincial government on minimum wage fixing Year 2017 in Decree No. 561/Kep.1191-Bangsos/2016. The method used a case study with qualitative paradigm. The results showed that that wages as an essential element for survival on the job still considered the workers are still far away from the needs of daily life worth living. The Employers and government considered the wages are set through regulations has met the standards of daily life worth living. the workers felt excluded in determining a fair wage. The protest is considered the workers to be the strategy of their fate, because the dialogue or communication between employers and workers often do not solve the problem. Protest been able pressing employers and governments to concerned about their fate. Politicization protest often used by labor activists to express their aspirations. While, employers feel that the protest made a great disadvantage for companies, led to the cessation of production. The protest is a form of the workers resistance are always positioned by governments and employers as part of the "outside" company. Also be a picture of the failure of communication and negotiation at the level bipartite (employers-workers) and tripartite (employer-labor and government). The tripartite relationship is characterized conflictual and exploitative relationships.