"Time for ATG in Sri Lanka to back off", 22 June 2018

On 22 June 2018, workers at ATG belonging to the Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees’ Union (FTZ&GSEU), picketed the British Embassy over labour abuses at the company, which has joint Sri Lankan/British investors...

...In a letter handed to the British Embassy...the FTZ&GSEU said: 

“We take these unholy trends against workers by the ATG very seriously... and would thus set the pace in the FTZ in working against unionisation of workers, a very condition the EU has wanted corrected when granting EU GSP ‘Plus’ to Sri Lanka. We...appeal to you to intervene at the highest level to ensure workers’ rights are guaranteed in the export sector...” 

...FTZ&GSEU has received...support from the German ambassador in Sri Lanka, who wrote to the Minister of Labour...expressing concerns of the violations of labour rights...