Sri Lanka, March 9 -- Around 25 trade unions attached to the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) have decided to withdraw from all services for 24 hours from 3:00 p.m. today (09).

The General Secretary of the CEB's Sri Lanka Nidahas Sewaka Samgamaya, Prabath Priyantha stated that the strike action will be launched over several demands including the government's failure to provide a positive response to the requests of electricity workers.

He also noted that employees will not report to work until a discussion is held after studying the collective agreement.

Prabath Priyantha stated that a decision has been made to continue operating the power plants and other essential operations. However, he said that all breakdown repairs and maintenance ...