Please return to work-SB

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CHATURANGA PRADEEP SAMARAWICKRAMA Follow

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Higher Education Minister S.B Dissanayake yesterday urged university-non-academics to call off their strike and return to work, assuring them that their grievances would be addressed by the authorities.

University-non academics went on strike this Wednesday and vowed to continue until the government increased the salaries of all non-academic staff members by 11% as promised in February this year. The strike enters its third day today.

“Please return to work. We cannot fix these problems completely but we will definitely extend our support to ensure that your grievances are addressed,” Mr. Dissanayake assured non-academics during a media briefing yesterday.

The minister added that union members who had pressured others to go on strike would be punished and legal action would be taken against them. He said the non-academics grievances could have been discussed further but that they had struck work before further negotiations could take place

“Revising the salaries is a complex task because they have to be on par at some level with salaries of government employees in other institutions. There are over 200 different categories in the university-non-academic sector and, therefore, there are several different areas that we have to look into,” he said. (Olindhi Jayasundere)

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SilverHawk Friday, 08 June 2012 06:43 AM

if you have done your job properly , this wouldnt have happened. This is the result of incompetent ministers.

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Countryman Friday, 08 June 2012 06:39 AM

This expression creates some puzzle as salary anomalies in Academic staff will be shouldered directly by University Grant Commission but Non-Academics are to be addressed in par with govt. salary structure under regularization by the Finance
Secretariat. Appointments for Non-Academic staff is mostly political and Academic Staff mainly on merit..

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Kondeybendapucheena Friday, 08 June 2012 07:11 AM

are you asking or begging them to come,Please solve this problem ASAP,

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pem Friday, 08 June 2012 08:50 AM

You cant handle them like this. You may have to be liitle tough.

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sam Friday, 08 June 2012 09:10 AM

Stalling tactics

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Solomon Friday, 08 June 2012 11:42 AM

Without just addressing the media why can't the minister have discussions with the unions concerned? That is what the unions have been trying to do having token strikes twice earlier. The whole university system in Sri Lanka is paralysed. When authorities of foreign universities hear these strikes they won't think twice of establishing universities in Sri Lanka.

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