The Senior management of the Ceylon Electricity Board yesterday (16) said that they were taking steps to grant a 33 per cent salary hike to all CEB employees.
http://www.island.lk/2009/02/17/news2.html
Any board that would have the audacity to lobby for a 33% pay hike in the current economic cycle shoul be asked to sit down. There is a magic number but it is not 33. These men and women would far prefer to have their job security and get reasonable equity with benefits than be used as political pawns by upper management for requests that cannot be honored. If the workers were to walk out due to these percentages not being met and with the hardline that is espoused in this article, it may lead to dismissal. It is the workers that lose not only jobs, benefits but also their worker protection mechanism of collective bargaining. I believe in being fair and speaking the truth. I really believe in protecting our citizens livelihoods, I believe you need a COLA++ that is initiative based and results rewarded. That is not a "by friday deal" as hard and soft factors come into play. This missive will act as a request to executive branch to put those numbers together. The worst case scenario of following your current leadership’s stance is that you will lose CB benefits, be making less as ICs and exposing your jobs to foreign workers. It is well known through this world that I stand for our peoples. To do this it takes great care, not just as in caution, understanding or patience,but as in love. Just as I ask Edirisinghe et al to check their heads, I ask you to check your guts (for I want you to be well and nutritiously fed. Keep in mind that takes moderation not gluttony) and President Rajapaksa to check the purse. For me, it is all of the above but most greatly, it is a matter of the heart. When others look at our land from up on high (via sattelite) they see a pear, a teardrop or an inverted India, I see my homeland as a heart- not of a valentine variety; but that of the living, beating, life sustaining organ. As I zoom in through the atmosphere I see the rivers and roads that mix blood and oxygen, closer in the cars and the buses that transport our life’s blood and zoom closer, our peoples, who are the very cells and corpusules that not only multiply from the organ but create it. When I examine this heart not only do I have confidence in the musculator of the organ but also in the very corpusles that sustain and obtain from it. It is simply logic and not rhetoric, my peoples, that must guide us. Be patient and believe that it will come together just as the lobes that create our heartbeat. A great part of our protection as a society is based on our democratic, socialistic, republican stance. That is why I pray and thank God everyday that we are the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
I would think so.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I would think so.
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