No strike tomorrow, but date will be fixed: CEB United Trade Union Alliance

There is no strike tomorrow, but we are calling the employees attached to the maintenance services to Colombo, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) United Trade Union Alliance Convener Ranjan Jayalal said.

He told the media that their union would not call the essential workers who are engaged in the power stations and those who are engaged in emergency maintenance services.

"We are contemplating more than a thousand times before getting on to the strike. But a day will be fixed after tomorrow (Nov. 3). "We do not go on strike after a power cut," he said.

"As per the theory, we know that without our presence in the power stations, there is no way of providing stable power supply," Jayalal said.

However, the CEB Trade Union Alliance recently warned that there would be trade union action on November 3 similar to the 72-hour trade union action experienced in 1996.

The strike will be launched against the government's deal to transfer shares of the Yugadanavi LNG Power Plant in Kerawalapitiya to a US-based company and handing over the monopoly on bringing and distributing LNG to a private company without tender procedures. (Chaturanga Samarawickrama)