{"id":50366,"date":"2016-12-15T17:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50366"},"modified":"2016-12-15T17:51:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:51:46","slug":"nine-day-strike-at-hambantota-harbour-called-off-in-the-wake-of-ports-minister-arjuna-ranatungas-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=50366","title":{"rendered":"Nine Day Strike at Hambantota Harbour Called Off in the Wake of  Ports Minister  Arjuna Ranatunga&#8217;s Ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Following talks among the Ports and Shipping Ministry, Magampura Port Management Company (MPMC) and striking workers, the nine-day work stoppage was called off yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the protesters had resumed work in the wake of Minister Arjuna Ranatunga\u2019s ultimatum to discontinue them unless they reported to work by 2.00 pm.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 500 temporary dock workers struck work on Dec. 6 demanding that they be absorbed into the Sri Lanka Ports Authority ahead of the sale of its controlling stake of the Hambantota Port to a Chinese company.<\/p>\n<p>The navy intervened on Saturday to disperse strikers who had blocked a Japanese vehicle carrier from leaving the port.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said that negotiations were continuing to settle issues arising out of the decision to hand over the control of the port to a Chinese company. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton50366\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D50366&amp;text=Nine%20Day%20Strike%20at%20Hambantota%20Harbour%20Called%20Off%20in%20the%20Wake%20of%20%20Ports%20Minister%20%20Arjuna%20Ranatunga%26%238217%3Bs...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following talks among the Ports and Shipping Ministry, Magampura Port Management Company (MPMC) and striking workers, the nine-day work stoppage was called off yesterday. The ministry said the protesters had resumed work in the wake of Minister Arjuna Ranatunga\u2019s ultimatum to discontinue them unless they reported to work by 2.00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50367,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50366\/revisions\/50367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}