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A railway union strike stopped most trains across Sri Lanka on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of passengers to brave the few dangerously overcrowded trains that kept running or be stranded ...
Sri Lanka's government deployed army troops at railroad stations as railway employees continued with their strike that paralyzed train services across the country for a second day Wednesday, a day ...
2019 railway strike in Sri Lanka was an industrial dispute which happened for 12 consecutive days between the Sri Lanka Railways and the Government of Sri Lanka over the salary increments. It was considered to be one of the longest railway strikes in Sri Lanka since 2008. The strike began in mid September from midnight and ended up on 7 October ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
12 March 1928 – A passenger train and a mixed train collided near Kalutara killing 28 people. 23 May 1958 – A night mail train derailed at Batticaloa, killing three and injuring several others. 18 March 1964 – Sixty people died in a derailment at Mirigama. [2] 19 January 1985 – Eleven passengers were killed by an LTTE bomb on a Yal Devi ...
The long and bitter dispute between the main rail unions and the 14 train operators that are controlled by the Department for Transport (DfT) began in the summer of 2022. The two sides appear as ...
2007 German national rail strike; ... 2019 railway strike in Sri Lanka; B. Bellinzona railway workers' strike of 2008; G. Great Strike of February 7; Grivița strike ...
Sri Lanka's President will prepare an appropriate time frame to reactivate the Light Railway Transit Project with Japan, which was suspended in 2020 citing financial woes. The island nation is now ...