Week-long protest campaigns calling Govt to withdraw taxes

Professional unions have launched a week-long campaign calling the Government to remove the recently introduced tax revisions.

A string of protest campaigns were held in Colombo with one of the main protests outside the Colombo Ports entrance.

Doctors, bankers, engineers, health workers and university lecturers were involved in the campaign launched by the Professionals Trade Union Collective.

The Collective has launched what they call a ‘black week’.  In support of the campaign some of the employees turned up wearing black while the Bank Employees Union wearing black handed over a petition to the President’s office.

The main focus of the campaign has been to get the government to withdraw the recently increased taxes which has a bearing on the professionals.  However anti-government issues were taken up during the protest campaigns.

Several hospitals across the country witnessed protests by health workers with some of them calling the government to resolve the issue of shortage of medicines.   

PIX; PROTEST CAMPAIGN NEAR THE COLOMBO PORT- PIX BY INDIKA HANDUWALA