Today's labour news
Factory Closure as Union-Busting 2025-06-22 [Asian Labour Review]
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]
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]
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