Lankan’s clash in Jordan

10 October 2010 11:30 am

By Gandhya Senanayake

Jordanian police fired tear gas at Sri Lankan garment workers, after the workers threw stones damaging a police vehicle and injuring police officers following a dispute at the garment factory.

The Sri Lankan workers had demanded that their employer removes a Sri Lankan supervisor at the factory and provides them with accommodation. The factory had agreed to the demands after several meetings with the workers. When the employer tried to convey the acceptance of the demands, stones were thrown at the police officers escorting the garment officials, and the Jordanian police had then fired tear gas, Kingsley Ranawaka, Chairman of the Foreign Employment Bureau told Daily Mirror online.

The Sri Lankan embassy officials are also in discussions with the workers and trying to resolve the matter, Ranawaka added.
(Daily Mirror online)