Teachers organize sick note campaign-Government decided to close schools for two days

Sunil C. Perera in Colombo

All government schools will be closed on 11th and 12 of this month. The Government said this step has taken to protect the school children due to the Teachers’ strike which is to be held on these days.

According to the trade Union sources government school teachers have decided to not to report their duties due to non attendance of their salary anomalies by the ministry of education.
“ We will organize a sick note campaign to protest the government , said a trade unionist .Local teacher trade unions made continuous requests to the government asking a permanent solution for their current salary grievances .However the government made patch up solutions .
On Monday Teacher trade unionists confirmed that they would go ahead with their two-day sick note campaign .
General Secretary of Ceylon Teachers Service Union Mahinda Jayasinghe told a press conference yesterday that they had given notice of a strike to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on April 22. They also informed the Education Ministry of their decision on May 22. But, there had been no solution in sight for an eleven-year-old problem, he said.