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The trade union leaderships are desperately attempting to block a unified national movement of the working class to fight the Wickremesinghe government and its IMF austerity measures.
The Telecom Trade Union Front has fully accepted management’s abolition of the hard-won end of year bonus while claiming that management’s increased loan offer to workers is a “victory.”
The one-day national strike by Telecom workers powerfully demonstrated their determination to fight the Wickremesinghe government’s austerity measures.
Determined to prevent any confrontation with the government, the unions limited the event to a lunchbreak protest, making it impossible for workers from outside Colombo participating.
Union calls for increased involvement in the government’s restructuring and privatisation policies are not new and saw the elimination of over 2,000 Telecom jobs between 2000 and 2006.