Teacher unions threaten strike action once more over unfulfilled demands
View(s):The teachers unions warned that they have planned to call a protest over the Government’s failing to make education a closed service.
Ceylon Teachers’ Services Union General Secretary Mahinda Jayasinghe told the Sunday Times they would protest and take union action after January 20 if the Government fails to meet their demands.
He said they halted the strike action taken during a three month period, when the Government agreed to make their education a close service. He said the Government also agreed to increase the salaries of teachers as well.
“The Government said they would gazette our service as closed service, however they have not done that. They have not even issued any circular enacting our demands,” Mr. Jayasinghe said.
Ceylon Teachers Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin said they too would take trade union action if the Government fails to gazette the education sector as a closed service and provide solutions for salary anomalies.
“The government is provoking us by delaying our demands. We thought of the children and stopped the protests, but they have not issued a gazette nor a circular to make education a closed service,” he said.
He said they too would take strict union action if the Government fails to fulfill their demands.
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