Members of the Sri Lanka Education Service Lecturer Trade Union will stage a protest today (14) at 11:00 am in front of the Ministry of Education, at Isurupaya, Battaramulla, citing a number of unresolved issues, including internal salary disparities, Union Secretary S. M. P. Bandara said yesterday.
Union’s Media Secretary D. K. G. Wimalaratne said teachers’ salaries had been revised in 2022, but the then government had failed to provide an interim allowance, or salary increment, to education service lecturers, who were also entitled to it.
Chairman Savanathilaka Bandara said that lecturers responsible for training over 8,000 teacher recruits from national universities have been excluded from the streamlined promotion process that ensures career progression in the education sector.
They have had around seven rounds of discussions with Prime Minister and Education Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya and other top officials, but their problems remain unresolved, trade unionists complain.
by Pradeep Prasanna Samarakoon 