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The Ceylon Federation of Labour was registered as a federation of unions by the Workers & Peasants Union, which was led by the Radical Party under the influence of the ideas of M.N. Roy of India. When the Lanka Sama Samaja Party re-commenced its trade union activity in the post-war period, it did so in co-operation with the Workers & Peasants ...
During this period, P. Thigambaram was elected as the union's president. He was later elected to the Central Provincial Council from the Nuwara Eliya District, with M. Udayakumar serving as vice president. In the 2010 parliamentary elections, P. Thigambaram was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka from the Nuwara Eliya District. In the 2015 ...
The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) (Tamil: இலங்கை தொழிலாளர் காங்கிரஸ், romanized: Ilaṅkai Toḻilāḷar Kāṅkiras; Sinhala: ලංකා කම්කරු කොංග්රසය Lanka Kamkaru Kongrasaya) is a political party in Sri Lanka that has traditionally represented Sri Lankan Tamils of Indian origin working in the plantation ...
The Ceylon Labour Party was formed in October 1928, with A. E. Gunasinha as president and Proctor Marshall Perera as secretary. Its executive committee included C. H. Z. Fernando, A. Mahadeva, C. W. W. Kannangara, Victor Corea, George E. de Silva and Satiyawageswera Iyer and women members were included for the first time in Ceylon. [1]
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: 12 November 1994: D. B. Wijetunga [28] [29] Alavi Moulana: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: 10 April 2004: Chandrika Kumaratunga: Minister of Labour [30] Athauda Seneviratne: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001: 10 April 2004: Minister of Labour, Youth Affairs and Mineral Resources ...
The Sri Lanka Labour Party (SLLP; Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා කම්කරු පක්ෂය) is a political party led by A. S. P. Liyanage. The secretary is Miss P. D. K. K. P. Liyanage. The official electoral symbol is a kangaroo. [1]
A pioneering trade union leader, known as the "Father of the Labour Movement", he was the founder of the Ceylon Labour Party, Sri Lanka's first labour organisation. A former mayor of Colombo , he served as the Minister without portfolio , Minister of State and Chief Government Whip in the First Parliament of Sri Lanka and Ceylon's Ambassador to ...
The labour movement developed as a response to capitalism and the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, at about the same time as socialism. The early goals of the movement were the right to unionise, the right to vote, democracy, safe working conditions and the 40-hour week.