The Colombo District Court has issued an enjoining order against the Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers’ Union (CEBEU) Anil Induruwa and Joint Secretary Dhammika Wimalaratne.
The enjoining order prevents the two CEB officials from engaging in trade union action for the next 14 days starting from today.
The CEBEU had earlier warned of launching a trade union action from midnight yesterday resulting in a blackout from 08 am today.
However, the union called off the trade union action following successful talks with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa early this morning.
“It was decided to continue the strike while preventing a total power failure in the system until the demands are materialized, in honoring the President’s assurance that he would make sure the proposed amendments to the Act by CEB would be included,” Dhammika Wimalaratne said.
Despite the union partially calling off the strike, power disruptions were reported from various areas across the country, especially in the Colombo, Gampaha, and Kandy districts, early in the morning.
The CEB is currently engaged in power restoration efforts. (NewsWire)