FUTA campaign website launched

Further talks with Lalith Weeratunga on Thursday

July 8, 2012, 10:03 pm 

By Dasun Edirisinghe, the island

University teachers engaged in a campaign demanding a salary increase have launched a website to increase public awareness and to collect signatures for a petition to seek public support to win their demands.

President of the Federation of University Teachers’ Associations, Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri has said that the trade union action launched by the university teachers was not only for winning a pay hike but also to remedy the ills of the education sector.

The ongoing strike action would be continued until their demands were met. The representatives of the FUTA would hold a discussion with Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga on July 12 to try and resolve issues, FUTA sources said.