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Sri Lanka Women remain constrained by persistent pay gulf [The Sunday Times] 08-06-2025

Sri Lanka Tea estate workers seek ‘basic rights’ as citizens [UCA News] 02-06-2025

Sri Lanka CEB engineers issue a warning again, postal workers also to strike [Hiru News] 25-05-2025

Sri Lanka Government silent as civil society demands action on reform [IFJ] 15-05-2025

Sri Lanka Trade Union Victory in Sri Lanka: Health Workers Regain Lost Benefits [UNI Global Union] 27-03-2025

Sri Lanka Health professionals launch islandwide strike; postal workers’ strike continues [Ada Derana] 18-03-2025

Sri Lanka No justice for Lasantha Wickrematunge as murder suspects released [IFJ] 13-02-2025

Sri Lanka Women MPs push for stronger protections for female plantation workers [The Sunday Island] 02-02-2025

Sri Lanka New government must uphold press freedom, says press freedom collective [IFJ] 14-01-2025

Sri Lanka / Kuwait Domestic workers’ bondage exposes the brutal logic of global care chains [Global Labour Column] 11-01-2025


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Trade unionist challenges health minister to a debate 2025-06-09 [The Island]

Tea estate workers seek ‘basic rights’ as citizens 2025-06-08 [The Sunday Island]

Women remain constrained by persistent pay gulf 2025-06-08 [The Sunday Times]

Tea estate workers seek ‘basic rights’ as citizens 2025-06-02 [UCA News]

Tea pickers missing worker protection 2025-05-27 [Deutsche Welle]

CEB engineers issue a warning again, postal workers also to strike 2025-05-25 [Hiru News]

Government silent as civil society demands action on reform 2025-05-15 [IFJ]

Women's struggles and men's unions 2025-04-14 [The Island]

'Sri Lanka is a union country', says global labour leader 2025-04-14 [The Island]

Trade Union Victory in Sri Lanka: Health Workers Regain Lost Benefits 2025-03-27 [UNI Global Union]

GMOA threatens union action if greivances remain unresolved 2025-03-24 [The Island]

Health professionals to launch strike 2025-03-20 [The Island]

Medical professionals and Postal workers on strike today 2025-03-18 [The Mirror]

Health professionals launch islandwide strike; postal workers’ strike continues 2025-03-18 [Ada Derana]

Lanka hospitals mark International Women's Day 2025-03-10 [The Island]

Health unions threaten strike unless... 2025-03-01 [The Island]

No justice for Lasantha Wickrematunge as murder suspects released 2025-02-13 [IFJ]

Women MPs push for stronger protections for female plantation workers 2025-02-02 [The Sunday Island]

New government must uphold press freedom, says Press Freedom Collective 2025-01-14 [The Island]

New government must uphold press freedom, says press freedom collective 2025-01-14 [IFJ]

Kuwait Domestic workers’ bondage exposes the brutal logic of global care chains 2025-01-11 [Global Labour Column]

Women workers endure the biggest blows from economic collapse 2025-01-05 [The Sunday Times]

IBK unionized workers stage strike over wages, others 2024-12-30 [The Nation]

Unionized rail workers threaten to launch general strike Dec. 5 2024-11-23 [The Nation]

Ruhuna univeristy on strike demanding removal of VC 2024-11-21 [The Island]

Low Pay, No Support: Sri Lanka Delivery Drivers Seek Worker Rights For more info 2024-11-04 [Solidarity Center]

Journalist arrested for reporting protest 2024-10-31 [IFJ]

Special project underway to address public sector trade union issues 2024-09-05 [The Island]

Grama Niladharis on warpath, threaten strike 2024-08-13 [The Island]

Sri Lankan public banks unions secure hard-won agreement for 10,000 bank workers 2024-08-02 [UNI Global Union]

Pernicious, ubiquitous strikes 2024-07-13 [The Island]

Ad-hoc allowances trigger strikes in state sector 2024-07-13 [The Island]

Railway employees who are on strike given ultimatum to report to work by 12 noon today 2024-07-12 [The Island]

Striking railway workers and govt in no mood to compromise as commuters suffer 2024-07-12 [The Island]

Showdown on cards between govt and state sector unions over tough demands 2024-07-12 [The Island]

A railway union strike in Sri Lanka leaves tens of thousands of commuters stranded 2024-07-11 [The Post]

Uni non-academics ready to give up union action if..... 2024-07-01 [The Island]

Court bars planned teacher-prinical protest in Columbo 2024-06-27 [The Island]

SLAS union demands pay hike, threatens sick note campaign 2024-06-25 [The Island]

Tea estates condemn workers to sub-human lives, tribunal testimonies show 2024-06-23 [The Sunday Times]

Los sindicatos de Sri Lanka reclaman un diálogo social sobre controvertido proyecto de ley 2024-06-19 [IndustriALL]

Unions in Sri Lanka call for social dialogue on controversial bill 2024-06-19 [IndustriALL]

Railway strike to continue; thousands inconvenienced 2024-06-14 [The Island]

At first-ever Workers’ Tribunal: Judges recommend govt. to uphold dignity, rights of plantation workers 2024-06-11 [The Daily Mirror]

Call for declaring Jan 10 as day of Hill Country trade union martyrs 2024-06-11 [The Island]

35 days of trade union action cripples university system 2024-06-06 [The Mirror]

DFCC Bank supports Sri Lanka Tamil Women's Union's celebration of International Womens Day 2024-05-22 [The Island]

Festering pay tangle scuttles uni operations, unions dig in their heels 2024-05-12 [The Times]

Implementation of wage increase, responsibility of government and plantation owners -general secretary of Lanka Jathika Estate workers union, MP Vadival Suresh 2024-05-03 [The Island]

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