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Thursday, July 01, 2010

Sri Lanka: National Trade Union Centre slams govt budget

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The National Trade Union Centre (NTUC) in a statement issued on the Budget presented in Parliament on Tuesday, said it was one which had taken away many things from the people instead of providing them with relief.

It said prices of several essential items had been jacked up before the budget thereby heaping a heavy burden on the working class and what the government had presented on Tuesday was only an expenditure report for the next six months of the year.

The working class would not tolerate that kind of approach, the NTUC said.

The NTUC said nothing had been said in the Budget about the Rs. 2,500 salary hike which was mostly expected by those who had voted for the

President and the Government. "It was those people who had voted for the President and the Government and they were cheated, the NTUC said.

The statement signed by NTUC President former JVP MP Lal Kantha urged the working class to be ready for trade union action.

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