{"id":167462,"date":"2016-09-11T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=167462"},"modified":"2016-09-11T00:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T18:43:34","slug":"srilankan-airlines-finally-the-unelected-flight-attendant-union-president-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/srilankan-airlines-finally-the-unelected-flight-attendant-union-president-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"SriLankan Airlines: Finally The &#8216;Unelected&#8217; Flight Attendant Union President Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nine months of forcibly holding the reigns of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Flight+Attendants+Union&amp;x=14&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Flight Attendants Union<\/span><\/a> as its President of SriLankan Airlines, Cabin Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Adrian+Cramer&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Adrian Cramer<\/span><\/a> resigned from his post after a tumultuous emergency meeting was held by its members on the 8th of September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Cramer throwing in the towel, his close associates Vice President Warren Hendricks, Treasurer Elseworth Weerasinghe, Secretary Lanka Kamalgoda and the\u00a0Stewardess girl\u00a0Nithya Senani Senanayake who was released for\u00a0MP Namal Rajapaksa\u2019s work, also had resigned.<\/p>\n<p>At the emergency meeting two former preceding FAU Presidents Sidath Dedigama and Dinesh Fernando stepped in to bring stability in the interim until an Annual General Meeting is called.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the internal squabbles during Cramer\u2019s reign, even relations between the Pilots Guild was also soured after Cramer sent in an official letter to ALPGSL President Capt. Renuke Senanayake showing scant respect and even attempting to belittle the aviation professional.<\/p>\n<p>The acrimonious dispute between the Flight Attendants and the Pilots union bodies was resolved amicably at the Pilots Guild office yesterday, when Capt.Senanayake helped facilitate the meeting which was at the behest of Cabin Manager Sidath Dedigama.<\/p>\n<p>All matters of conflict and disputes resolved with honest dialog and genuine goodwill. The one hour and a half meeting covered all aspects of mutual concern and a strong show of solidarity with the new look committee of the FAU extending their support to the pilots guild especially regarding the ongoing \u201cPilot breathalyzer test saga\u201d which is of equal concern to the FAU.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Committee-Members-of-the-Pilots-Guild-And-Flight-Attendants-Union.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-167463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Committee-Members-of-the-Pilots-Guild-And-Flight-Attendants-Union.jpg\" alt=\"committee-members-of-the-pilots-guild-and-flight-attendants-union\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Committee-Members-of-the-Pilots-Guild-And-Flight-Attendants-Union.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Committee-Members-of-the-Pilots-Guild-And-Flight-Attendants-Union-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Committee Members of the Pilots Guild And Flight Attendants Union<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":157590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SriLankan Airlines: Finally The &#039;Unelected&#039; 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