While workers are determined to fight privatisation, the Ceylon Electricity Board’s trade union front is restricting them to futile campaigns, claiming this will pressure the Wickremesinghe government to change course.
The scheme is a result of further discussion between management and the trade unions as part of the IMF austerity measures of the Wickremesinghe government.
Appeals for increased retrenchment payouts is a cynical manoeuvre by union bureaucrats who are simply asking for a higher price for the destruction of jobs that they have no right to sell.
Port workers disgusted with increasing union collaboration with management and the betrayal of general strike action have begun discussing the need to form an independent action committee.