11일 세계노총이 성명을통해 <5대륙 133개국의 살고 노동하며 투쟁하는 1.05억 노동자들을 대표하는 세계노총은 스리랑카부르주아정부의 과중한 세금부과를 강력히 규탄한다. 스리랑카부르주아정부는 노동자준비기금 등을 약탈하려 하고 있다.>고 발표했다. 

성명은 <스리랑카정부는 이전정부에서 통과된 새로운 부가세법안과 정부기관을 기업으로 분류한 결정을 이용해 노동자들의 돈과 가장 큰 사회보장기금을 손에 넣으려고 하고 있다>고 지적했다. 

세계노총은 <노동자를 위한 사회보장기금을 비롯해 스리랑카노동계급의 생활수준, 혜택, 권리를 악화시키는 과중한 부가세법안을 즉각 무조건 폐지하라!>고 요구했다.

다음은 전문이다.

The World Federation of Trade Unions on behalf of its 105 million members who live, work and struggle in 133 countries of the 5 continents strongly condemns the Surcharge Tax Bill of the bourgeois government of Sri Lanka which constitutes -inter alia- one more attempt to loot the Employees’ Provident Fund ( EPF).
The government aims to get its hands to the workers’ money and the biggest Social Security Fund in the country by taking advantage of the newly tabled Surcharge Tax Bill in combination with an act that was passed by the previous government that classify EPF as a company.
We demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Surcharge Tax Bill and an end to the targeting of the workers’ social security funds as well as any attempt for further deterioration of the living standards, benefits, and rights of the working class of Sri Lanka. The World Federation of Trade Unions stands on the side of the class-oriented trade union movement and the people of Sri Lanka and expresses its full solidarity. We call upon the workers and the popular strata to join their voice with the class-oriented trade union movement of Sri Lanka and to massively oppose this new attack.
The Secretariat