Trade Union Action to be Launched by GMOA Soon

While addressing a press conference held at the GMOA Head Quarters in Colombo yesterday, GMOA Secretary Dr. Haritha Aluthge said that the Higher Education Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe made a clear promise to the Executive Committee of the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) to issue the gazette notification on abolishing the SAITM parallel to absorbing SAITM students to the KDU.

He said the GMOA Central Committee was happy with solving the SAITM issue by absorbing qualified SAITM students to the KDU. But this should be done without violating guidelines of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC).

According to Dr. Aluthge several other decisions were made during the emergency meeting of the GMOA Central Committee yesterday. The GMOA will commence an island-wide trade union campaign including huge protests next week if the Finance Ministry does not give an appointment for a discussion on the tax policy that harms professionals.

They decided to take all possible legal and trade union action against the illegal campaign launched by the `civil society’ against the real civil society in Sri Lanka.

The GMOA will monitor the responses of authorities towards several other demands of the GMOA and will take suitable trade union actions, he concluded.