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Electricity sector trade union plans for an island wide blackout, goes on hold after the government agrees to hold back Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) reforms.







Electricity sector trade union plans for an island wide blackout, goes on hold after the government agrees to hold back Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) reforms. "The Minister of Power and Energy said the cabinet paper (to restructure the CEB) will not go ahead," said Lakshitha Weerasinghe, Executive Committee Member of the CEB’s Engineers Union.






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"The Minister said there was no question of withdrawing the Cabinet paper, but that the government will not go ahead with it without trade union agreement," said Weerasinghe.

On Wednesday, the Engineers Union went public with threats of an island wide blackout if the government goes ahead with plans to restructure the CEB without trade union input.

After the announcement, around 30 CEB trade unions met the Minister of Power and Energy, Susil Premajayantha and top government officials.

The Engineers Union met the Minister and the Treasury Secretary, P B Jayasundara for another round of bargaining on Thursday morning.

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