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Union threatens to take Dallas to court
Friday, 27 July 2007 - 5:14 AM SL Time
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All Ceylon Transport Workers Union (ACTWU) is contemplating legal action against Transport Minister Dallas Allahaperuma for violating the Sri Lanka Transport Board Act (SLTB).
Addressing a press conference in Colombo yesterday, ACTWU General Secretary Sepala Liyanage said: `We have nothing personal against the Transport Minister but if he continues to go by the Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundara`s policies, we would resort to legal action followed by a massive agitation campaign`.
Liyanage charged that it was Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundara through the Public Enterprises Reforms Commission (PERC) who destroyed the SLTB and continue to do so with Strategic Enterprises Management Agency (SEMA)
Liyanage said more than 90 per cent of the SLTB work force of nearly 42,000 voted for President Mahinda Rajapakse because he understood the pulse of the workers. Now it was up to him to decide on theirfate without seeing them thrown out to the streets.
`We are ready to face any battering like what we received under former Transport Minister A.H.M. Fowzie. We are prepared to safeguard the rights of SLTB workers even at the risk of our ribs and bones broken` he said.
He said, at a meeting with the Transport Minister in
March, he had agreed to sort out employees` grievances after examining the 25 proposals presented to him. He requested three months to settle these matters, however he had failed to attend to it, he added.
Liyanage said that SLTB the is the only institution in the country where salaries were not paid on time. No employee is sure when he would get his salary`, he said.
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alwaysalion
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27 Jul 2007 16:25:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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Long live the union! Get these Bas....! They are looting
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anizam
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27 Jul 2007 23:39:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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Liyanage said more than 90 per cent of the SLTB work force of nearly 42,000 voted for President Mahinda Rajapakse because he understood the pulse of the workers. Now it was up to him to decide on theirfate without seeing them thrown out to the streets.
YOU DOnkeys DESERVE what you are getting from Punnakku raja and his crony govt. if you are dumb enough to bealive a fraud like MR, you are too stupid to have a job evern cleaning buses.
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gchula99
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28 Jul 2007 08:14:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dallas, please do whatever you decide correct and don't listen to stupid critics.That is why we elected you.In little years time people will decide you.
When I was a teenager my mom says no no don't do it whatever the effort is.If the thing goes wrong she always yell didn't I tell you.
DO IT IF YOU HONESTLY THINK IS CORRECT
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Sam007
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28 Jul 2007 10:50:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Before you ask for the monthly salary on time try to come to work on time and when you come to work,
Stop having tea every 1 hour, smoking and engage in chi chats,take 2 hors for lunch and hour for evening tea.
First work and protect the public property and stop wasting goverment and tax payers money.
Ask for more when you do more. You don't ask for more when you do nothing. |
saliya
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29 Jul 2007 00:23:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Government must not bow down to private bus owners for their unreasonable conditions. They always think about thier business and try to get maximum from commuters. Most of bus owners say they run the business at loss but getting a raute permit is very difficult even for a very remote raute. This appears bus owners run at big profit margin. |
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