Four Ports Authority Workers Have Begun Fast Unto Death Campaign By Demanding Several Demands Including New Year Bonus

Four Workers including Trade Union Leaders attached to Sri Lanka Ports Authority's Joint Trade Unions Forum have today (10) launched a fast unto death campaign opposite  the entrance to the Colombo by demanding several demands including New Year Bonus .

The Trade Unions Forum earlier engaged in a work to rule campaign by demanding solutions for workers demands and as the authorities have failed to provide solutions to the demands the Trade Unions have begun death unto fast campaign according to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority Branch of Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya(National Employees Union).

The Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya has accused the Minister of Ports and Shipping Arjuna Ranathunge and his brother Ports Authority Chairman Dhammika Ranathunge for using underworld thugs to threaten workers engagagin in trade union action.