Sri Lanka's trade unions to meet tomorrow to discuss measures to win promised salary increments

-Sri Lanka's National Trade Union Center (NTUC) affiliated to Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP0 is to meet tomorrow (11) to discuss the steps to be taken to win the promised Rs. 2,500 salary increment for public sector employees.


The executive committee of the NTUC is to meet under the chairmanship of JVP's trade union wing leader K.D. Lalkantha.
Lalkantha said that the committee would discuss the issues faced by the public sector employees in the country and measures to be taken to win the promised Rs. 2,500 salary increment and the salary arrears since November 2009.
Earlier in the week, addressing an annual convention of a trade union affiliated to the NTUC, Lalkantha vowed to launch a struggle to win the salary increment the government promised this year.
He said the trade unions would also demand the payment of arrears since November 2009 to the public sector employees.
According to Lalkantha, the government does not seem to have made the necessary provisions to provide any relief to the working masses in the proposed 2010 Budget.
The NTUC comprises some 400 public, private and estate sector trade unions.