While the Wickremesinghe government has made clear that there will be no salary increase, the University Trade Union Joint Committee (UTUJC) leadership is backing away from its original demands.
Rejecting the trade union bureaucracy, which is working hand in glove with ministers, university employees must turn to their class brothers and sisters who are confronting the Wickremesinghe government’s IMF brutal austerity measures.
The UNATUA leadership is the main obstacle to a political struggle by non-academic staff to defeat government repression, win a decent wage increase and oppose the cuts to public education.
Protesters involved in an indefinite strike were violently assaulted by riot police, including with a water cannon spraying polluted water at them at high pressure.
Intensified exploitation and job losses are hitting foreign workers in Oman, excacerbated by expanding war in the Middle East and Ukraine.
The Sri Lankan government encourages people to seek employment abroad to boost foreign exchange earnings but is indifferent to their ruthless exploitation and harassment.
Sri Lankan migrant workers explain difficulties they faced due to the criminal response of the ruling elite to the pandemic in both the Middle East and Sri Lanka.
Ridma Ratnayake, Sandamali’s younger sister, spoke to the spoke to the World Socialist Web Site from Tokyo last week.
The IUTUJC ended the campaign on the basis of an empty promise over salary anomalies.
