Sri Lankan plantation workers urge Pampas workers to take matters into their own hands and form their own rank-and-file committee, independent of the trade union apparatus.
Glenugie tea plantation workers are outraged after the CWC and NUW unions colluded with management to shut down a strike and enforce increased workloads. Two workers remain suspended for striking.
Tea plantation workers at Glenugie and elsewhere must prepare for a united struggle to defend their wages and basic rights by building workers’ action committees, independent of the unions.
The CWC is preparing to join the Wickremesinghe government and help it impose IMF austerity and suppress the opposition of workers and the rural masses.
The GEWAC appeals to all workers in Glenugie estate and other plantations to join with us to build action committees in every estate independent from the trade unions and organise a common struggle for our rights.