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The Executive Board of the UNI Sri Lanka Affiliates Council (UNI SLAC) met on 29th May 2014 to elect new officials to its council. The council also decided at the meeting to hold its first conference on 28th August 2014 in Colombo to come up with an action plan to expand UNI activities in Sri Lanka.

Outgoing General Secretary E Somachandra took the chance to welcome two new affiliates into the council namely the Health Services Trade Union Alliance (HSTUA) and Insurance Employees Union Sri Lanka (IEUSL). Somachandra thanked the affiliated unions for the cooperation extended to him during his tenor since the inception of UNI SLAC.

Anura Perera President of ACTSU thanked Bro Somachandra for all the services extended, recalling particularly the mammoth task of distributing tsunami relief assistance and contributions from UNI affiliates across the globe to victims after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. On behalf of the UNI Apro Regional Secretary, Jayasri Priyalal, Director of UNI Apro Finance, expressed his appreciation for Bro Somachandra’s services and commitment to UNI SLAC at the meeting.

Gayan Munaweera will continue as the President of UNI SLAC while Haripriya Hettiarachchi, Vice President of Media Pro-Tech, and Saman Rathnapriya, President of HSTUA, were elected as Treasurer and Deputy President of UNI SLAC respectively.   Upali Dissanayake, President of TOU, succeeds Bro Somachandra as the General Secretary of UNI SLAC.

Please see the Related File for details of the newly elected officials.