On July 12, two busloads of retrenched workers and their families went to Putra Jaya to deliver a memorandum to the prime minister, requesting intervention in their dispute with plantation giant Guthrie. The workers were retrenched in December 1999, when Guthrie decided to switch from rubber to oil palm cultivation. The company is refusing to increase the retrenchment benefits for its former workers from a paltry RM330 per year of service, which is the minimum payment required by law. For more information visit < http://parti-A HREF="mailto:sosialis.org"><sosialis.org>.

From Green Left Weekly, July 20, 2005.
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