Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 12:57 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Nov 25, Colombo: Ceylon Workers Congress Vice President Kanapathy Kanagaraj says the plantation workers will launch a protest campaign tomorrow demanding the authorities to raise their basic daily wage to Rs. 1000.The unions have planned to call the plantation workers to the main roads to engage in demonstrations from 10 am to 1 pm, the CWC leader said.
As a support to the estate workers' demand, the business in all the main towns in the plantation sector in central hills have agreed to close their shops for three hours from 10 am tomorrow.
Discussions have been held for the last time recently between the plantation owners and the trade unions of the estate workers recently at the Finance Ministry.
The issue has become an impasse as the estate workers demand to increase the basic daily wage to Rs. 1000 while the plantation owners say they can increase the basic wage only up to Rs. 600 and with allowances the pay will increase up to a Rs. 1000. However, the trade unions say they are not prepared to agree to a basic daily wage below Rs. 1,000.
