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- Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!usenet
- From: nyt%nyxfer@igc.apc.org (NY Transfer News)
- Subject: Sri Lankan Garment Workers Strike
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.011848.14378@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 01:18:48 GMT
- Approved: surekha@nyx.cs.du.edu (Surekha Reddy Gaddam)
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- Source : The NY Transfer News Service
- (from LaborNet via peacenet)
- Country : Sri Lanka
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- Date Received: Dec 21, 1992
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- * SRI LANKAN GARMENT WORKERS INJURED IN STRIKE
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- COLOMBO, Dec 14 - Police used batons and tear gas to disperse hundreds of
- striking Sri Lankan garment workers on Monday and hospital sources said
- 42 workers needed treatment.
- Police said about 600 workers, mainly women, from five factories had
- gone on strike over year-end bonuses, pay rises and working conditions at
- the Katunayake Free Trade Zone in Colombo. Police charged after the workers
- defied orders to disperse. Katunayake is one of three zones set up by the
- government to attract foreign investment.
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