{"id":105160,"date":"2020-08-02T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105160"},"modified":"2020-08-02T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:05:35","slug":"port-employees-call-off-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/02\/port-employees-call-off-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Port employees call off strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo Port trade union workers have called of their trade union action with immediate effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was following a successful discussion with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, stated Port Trade Unions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trade unions of the Colombo Port, who launched a strike action on the 2nd of July, later called off their strike action following a meeting held with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0dba \u0dc0\u0dd8\u0dad\u0dca\u0dad\u0dd3\u0dba \u0dc3\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dcf\u0db8\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dba \u0d85\u0dc0\u0dc3\u0db1\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yp9HHRx75do?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During this discussion, held on July 03, a decision was taken to unload the 03 gantry cranes brought down from China, at the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 23 trade unions of the Colombo Port resorted to a Satyagraha on the 29th of July, demanding a written affirmation stating that the East Container Terminal (ECT) is still under the purview of SLPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They subsequently withdrew from all duties with effect from Friday (31), bringing operations at the port to a standstill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protesting port workers also obstructed the port access road near the \u2018Hartal Bridge\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, on Saturday (01), the Police obtained a court order preventing Port workers from obstructing Bloemendhal Port Access road and adjacent roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Colombo Port trade union workers have called of their trade union action with immediate effect. This was following a successful discussion with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, stated Port Trade Unions. Trade unions of the Colombo Port, who launched a strike action on the 2nd of July, later called off their strike action following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}