Central trade union of Sri Lanka Marxist party to hold annual convention tomorrow

Inter Company Workers Unions of the National Trade Union Center (NTUC) affiliated with the Marxist party of Sri Lanka Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will hold 13th Convention of union delegates at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium tomorrow, a party spokesman said.
More than 570 institutions Island wide would participate in the convention on 13th March, . Senior assistant secretary of the Union, P. Hettiarachchi says that the government has not given any salary increment for private sector workers but has burden them with tax and fines while real wages have been devalued by depreciating the rupee. A protest march is also to be held before the convention on 13th March in Colombo, the JVP trade union spokesman said. The central union demands a 40% salary increase, a pension for private sector employees and to gazette the cost-of-living index as Rs 280. The NTUC recently wrote to President Mahinda Rajapaksa asking him to bring down the cost of living and demanded that provision be made to pay a special cost of living allowance of Rs. 3,000 to the working masses.