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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: Strike in Sri Landa's "Free Trade Zone"
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- Topic 200 Sri-lanka: Strike in FTZ
- jagdish apc.labour 10:41 pm Sep 14, 1992
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- Subject: Sri-lanka: Strike in FTZ
- From: Jagdish Parikh <jagdish@chasque.apc.org>
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- Dear friends, You may find following news interesting. Jagdish Parikh
- (Labornet on-line coordinator)
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 23:57:19 PDT
- From: kashyapa@iris-8.ce.berkeley.edu (K.A.S. Yapa)
- Message-Id: <9209140657.AA01276@iris-8.ce.Berkeley.EDU>
- To: labornet@igc.apc.org
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- 09/04 0723 OVER 500 EMPLOYEES IN SRI LANKA'S FREE TRADE ZONE ON STRIKE
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- COLOMBO (SEPT. 4) XINHUA - Dismissal of a local employee by South
- Korean managers of a free trade zone (FTZ) factory triggered a
- strike of 500 Sri Lankan employees Thursday, local newspapers
- reported today.
- The workers who said the managers were maltreating the local
- staff demanded better pay and more amenities if production is to
- resume in the leather bag factory near Colombo international air-
- port.
- The worker was dismissed because he was absent for two
- minutes, his fellow workers said. He also charged that the
- management deprived him of his chance to explain as required by
- Sri Lankan labor law.
- Free trade zone sources said that the issue is being handled
- cautiously with a view to normalizing the situation as further
- spread of labor unrest could harm the island's ambitious invest-
- ment program.
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