Dear Friends, Courts of appeal issued a judgment on the G.P Garment case directing arbitrator to proceed with the case As you all know the G.P Garment Ltd. dismissed 518 employees ( about 450 are female ) in April 2005 alleging that they have Hostage the foreign management and later

Dear FriendsHeavy Flood in Sri LankaBadly effected to the FTZ workers Katunayake Due to the unexpected weather change at the Bengal bay Sri Lanka got gales for last 5 days and lead to a heavy flood in island wide especially at Western province. According to the information sources there are around 480000 victims and 18 deaths has been reported up to now. The Free Trade Zone katunayake which b

His Excellency Ban Ki MoonSecretary General of the United NationsThe Peoples’ Liberation Front (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) ), the leadingleftist political party and the third main political party in Sri Lanka presents thisreport on ‘Undemocratic acts of the government led by the President MahindaRaja

The Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees Union in Sri Lanka has demanded that employers ensure decent work by paying a living wage, Free Trade Zone workers earning the minimum wage live in poverty, often barely able to afford one meal a day. As part of its on-going campaign for a living wage,