Ceylon Electricity Board employees to strike on New Year eve

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) Joint Trade Union Committee member Ranjan Jayalal says that the employees of the CEB will definitely report sick on April 11.

He said that the government would have to take the responsibility of delay in repairing breakdowns.

The CEB Joint Trade Union Committee says that the government has ignored the common employees of the CEB by granting a special salary increase only to the engineers and other executives creating a massive anomaly.

CEB employees were given a 25% salary hike and later the executives were granted another increase.

Joint Trade Union Committee says that the increase for the executives amount to 50%.

CEB Joint Trade Union Committee has membership of 15,000 and the committee says they will meet again on April 18 and a half day strike will be launched as a precursor of an upcoming continuous strike.

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