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A railway union strike stopped most trains across Sri Lanka on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of passengers to brave the few dangerously overcrowded trains that kept running or be stranded ...
VK mentored them in trade union politics, leadership, and management, ensuring a strong line of succession within the union. Under VK's leadership, the NUW grew to become one of the leading trade unions in Sri Lanka, boasting nearly 500,000 members. It played a key role in the labour movement within the tea plantations.
The Ceylon Mercantile Union (CMU) is one of the largest trade unions in the commercial sector in Sri Lanka. The Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers Union was originally built in 1928 as a white-collar union in the mercantile sector. Victor Corea and A.E. Goonesinha were respectively the inaugural President and secretary of the CMU.
The Ceylon Trade Union Federation (abbreviated CTUF) was a national trade union centre in Ceylon/Sri Lanka. CTUF was founded in December 1940, united various unions led by the United Socialist Party. [1] [2] The founding meeting of CTUF was chaired by a Buddhist monk, Ven. Saranankara. [3] [4] Pieter Keuneman served as CTUF president for some ...
Batty Weerakoon, The Ceylon Federation of Labour & the Trade Union Movement in Sri Lanka (1932-1975), (abridged version) accessed on 4 November 2005. Leslie Goonewardena, Short History of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party Archived 2006-10-31 at the Wayback Machine accessed 4 November 2005. Colvin R. de Silva, Hartal! accessed 4 November 2005.
When the Lanka Sama Samaja Party re-commenced its trade union activity in the post-war period, it did so in co-operation with the Workers & Peasants Union and gradually took over leadership of the CFL by 1946. The CFL was involved in the general strike of 1946 and its successor of 1947. It was the prime mover in the hartal (strike) of 1953.
The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) (Tamil: இலங்கை தொழிலாளர் காங்கிரஸ், romanized: Ilaṅkai Toḻilāḷar Kāṅkiras; Sinhala: ලංකා කම්කරු කොංග්රසය Lanka Kamkaru Kongrasaya) is a political party in Sri Lanka that has traditionally represented Sri Lankan Tamils of Indian origin working in the plantation ...
Trade Unions and Politics in Ceylon. California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-01713-9. Muthiah & Wanasinghe (2002). We were making history: the Hartal of 1953. A Young Socialist Publication. ISBN 978-955-9150-03-9. Jupp, James (1978). Sri Lanka: Third World Democracy: 3rd World Democracy. London: Frank Cass and Company.