Never a day passes without some incident in the railways – derailments, delays, strikes, etc. To get to the root cause, it is best to go back to the era of the legendary B. D. Rampala and before, when the trains ran to time and derailments, accidents were very very rare.
The derailments are mainly due [...]
Salary anomalies of over 2,000 station masters in the Railway Department will be rectified before April with the approval of the Salaries and Cadres Commission, the Railway Operating Superintendent, Vijaya Samarasinghe said.
Speaking to the Sunday Observer, he said all information pertaining to station masters’ salary anomalies have already been submitted to the Salaries and Cadres [...]
The 48 hour token strike launched by Sri Lanka Railway Station Masters’ Union SLRSMU from Monday midnight came to an end last night.
The members of the SLRSMU had resorted to trade union action as the management of the Sri Lanka Railways continued to ignore their demands for years, General Secretary of the union W. Amarasena [...]
Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) yesterday said that arrangements have been made to solve the issues put forward by the striking station masters.
The SLR General Manager addressing the media yesterday said they had made arrangements to solve the issues put forward by the Sri Lanka Station Masters’ Union (SLSMU).
Speaking to The Morning Leader Operating Superintendent, SLR, [...]
Station masters of the Sri Lanka Railway Department began a two-day strike today disrupting the train service and leaving thousands of train commuters stranded at train stations.
Demanding to resolve the salary problems and other few burning issues the Station Masters Union of Sri Lanka Railway department commenced the two-day strike from last midnight.
K.V Jayasena, the [...]
The C.G.R. Station Masters’ Union, which struck work at midnight on Monday, protesting over salary anomalies, has decided to continue the strike crippling train services across the country.
Yesterday morning a number of railway stations did not issue tickets to commuters and people had travelled without tickets.
A Transport Ministry spokesman told The Island that the Ministry [...]
The Sri Lanka Railway Station Masters’ Union (SLRSMU) will launch a token strike at Tuesday midnight demanding the implementation of the 6/2006 departmental circular regarding salary revisions to all grades of Station masters, salary increments to the station masters who have been promoted to Grade One and to fill the 200 vacancies in their cadre.
The [...]
Millions of commuters will be stranded at railway stations tomorrow as Sri Lanka Railway Station Masters’ Union (SLRSMU) goes on strike, crippling the train services from midnight today. The SLRSMU claimed that over 1,000 station masters around the island will take part in the strike.
“All the unions have offered their support for our cause and [...]
