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Sri Lanka's power sector engineers have sought US help to prevent what is said to be one the most insidious destruction of a competitive tender seen so far in the country involving the entertainment of a parallel back-door deal, leading to a loss of broader investor confidence.
This chapter in Stan Weir's Singlejack Solidarity tells the history of how, from the victory in the 1934 General Strike through the first Mechanization & Modernization (M&M) Agreement in 1961, longshore workers in San Francisco had 27 years of near-total control of the labor process on the waterfront in the "largest, longest, and most successful formal experiment in workers' control ever conducted in the United States."
Known as Bill Newson. Grew up in Otara, Auckland in the 1960s. Started work as a fitter and welder at Newmarket Welding Works. At 19 he moved to Au...
Another park was inaugurated in the Battaramulla area, named ‘National Sandalwood Park’, also known as ‘Jathika Hadun Uyana’. This is in addition to the existing parks in the area, namely; Diyatha Uyana, Beddagana Wetland Park, Diyasaru Park and Apegama Heritage Village. About a week after the inauguration, I visited the Hadun Uyana during the daytime […]
Thursday July 29, 2021 10:50 am Thursday July 29, 2021 10:50 am ECONOMYNEXT – Engineers of Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board have raised concerns over how competitive procurement for a floating LNG terminal and pipeline was undermined by an unsolicited deal with a US company. The CEB floated tenders for a floating storage degasification unit on a 10-year build operate own basis and a separate pipeline was also tendered on a build operate transfer basis. An announcement was then made that a ‘framework agreement’ had been signed to sell state shares in an existing combin...