It also passed another resolution at the meeting held in Kandy calling on the government to take steps to grant relief measures to low-income earners by providing essential foodstuffs and medicine at subsidised rates through the Co-operative Societies.
The JPTUC President S.Ramanathan alleged that the Up-country Workers' Front was engaged in mud-slinging campaign against the JPTUC, CWC and LJEWU, which were involved in the plantation workers' wage negotiation with the Employers' Federation of Ceylon (EFC).
He said that they would continue to have their dialogue with the EFC until a reasonable settlement was reached.
He said that those who criticized them for having signed Collective Agreements (CAs) with the EFC boasted that they would get the salary increase of the workers by taking the issue to court but could not get even a single cent for the workers.
He maintained that the people who were opposed to the signing of the CA for the plantation workers were now worried that they were not taken to the wage negotiations table.
