Strike action launched by postal employees - Sri Lanka

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Postal employees were due to launch an overtime strike action citing several demands starting from today, Trade Unions Federation of the postal service said.

This strike had been organized with ten demands in mind including the immediate removal of the Postmaster General, solutions to the problems of workers, preventing the privatization of the postal service, taking disciplinary action against errant postal officers irrespective of their status, said the media spokesman of the Trade Union Federation. K.M. Chinthaka Bandara yesterday (4).

“This is the first step of the trade union action which would be extended islandwide if needed to win our demands. The postal strike in January was called off after the government promised to look into our grievances. However they had not given solutions to those demands as yet”, he said.

According to him about 18000 workers including workers of the Central Postal Exchange (CPO) would participate in the strike from today (5), adding that there were seventeen trade unions supporting the strike action.

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