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University non-academic workers stage token strike
By Rathindra Kuruwita
The non-academic staff of all 17 state universities held a token strike yesterday against increasing the salaries of only one category of individuals in the higher education sector.
The study allowance for university academics was increased by 25 percent earlier this month.Thirty four unions in the university sector had joined the strike, University Executive Officers’ Association (UEOA), General Secretary, Sampath Udayange said.
He said that a salary anomaly had been created in 2016, and all unions in the university sector had been trying to resolve it for years.
“We have no objections to university academics receiving a 25 percent increase in their study allowance. We just want the Monthly Compensatory Allowance (MCA) to be increased by 25 percent too,” he said.
K. A. L. Richman, Joint Secretary of the Inter University Service Trade Union, said the University Grants Commission staff too were on strike.
“Everyone, from the labourers to engineers attached to universities, are on strike. The university academics deserve an increased study allowance. Usually, when the study allowance increases, the MCA also increases. It didn’t happen this time,” he said.
It has been reported that the death toll in the Gerandi Ella bus accident has risen to 11
It has been reported that Eight persons [five males and three females] have died when a SLTB bus operating from Kataragama to Kurunegala via Nuwara Eliya, veered off the road and went down a precipice early morning today (11) in Gerandi Ella in Ramboda along the Nuwara Eliya – Gampola main road, Police said.
At least 37 others injured in the accident, have been admitted to the Nuwar Eliya and Kothmale hospitals.
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