{"id":86948,"date":"2019-04-04T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T21:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86948"},"modified":"2019-04-04T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T21:53:42","slug":"srilankan-airlines-to-be-sold-to-ltte-funded-company-trade-unions-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/04\/srilankan-airlines-to-be-sold-to-ltte-funded-company-trade-unions-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"SriLankan Airlines to be sold to LTTE-funded company, trade unions claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>SLFP-affiliated trade unions of SriLankan Airlines today claimed that the government is preparing to sell Sri Lanka\u2019s national carrier to a company which is \u2018operating with LTTE funds\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives of the Sri Lanka Nidahas Sevaka Sangamaya \u2013 Sri Lankan Airlines, addressing a press conference today, vowed to resort to strict trade union action if the government goes ahead with such a deal.<\/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=\"\u0dc1\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dbd\u0db1\u0dca\u0d9a\u0db1\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dd4\u0dc0\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc3\u0db8\u0dcf\u0d9c\u0db8 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dd2\u0dab\u0dd3\u0db8\u0dda \u0dc3\u0dd6\u0daf\u0dcf\u0db1\u0db8\u0d9a\u0dca \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0dc4\u0dd9\u0dc5\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dbb\u0dc0\u0dca\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dca...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_qKB0dPgVSM?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>Chairman of the association, Janaka Wijepathirana, alleged that the relevant Cabinet paper proposing the sale of SriLankan Airlines to a \u2018company operating with LTTE funding\u2019 is to be presented to the Cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He claimed that as the preliminary step towards this, the two most profitable subsidiaries of the airline including SriLankan Catering are to be removed from under SriLankan Airlines and sold to the company in question while the necessary plans have already been drafted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representatives of SLFP \u2013affiliated trade union of SriLankan Catering also joined the media briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana SLFP-affiliated trade unions of SriLankan Airlines today claimed that the government is preparing to sell Sri Lanka\u2019s national carrier to a company which is \u2018operating with LTTE funds\u2019. Representatives of the Sri Lanka Nidahas Sevaka Sangamaya \u2013 Sri Lankan Airlines, addressing a press conference today, vowed to resort to strict trade union action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86948","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=86948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}