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by Ananda Kannangara Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake told a press briefing that a section of workers in the CWE would not have participated in the recent fast un to death campaign unless they were instigated to do so by the JVP. The Minister said that no workers in the CWE earlier spoke against the Voluntarily Retirement Scheme (VRS) introduced by the CWE from which nearly 2200 of the workforce had already benefitted. "However the ten workers who took part in the fast unto death campaign had also made a request from the Chairman of CWE to grant them the VRS scheme," Karunanayake said. The Minister said that CWE had recorded a profit of Rs. 760 million at the time the UNP Government handed over the management to the PA in 1994 and during the seven years of PA regime a loss of Rs. 13.6 billion was recorded. |
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