Swasthika Arulingam

President

Commercial and Industrial Workers Union, Sri Lanka

About Swasthika Arulingam

Swasthika Arulingam is a labor rights activist and lawyer from Sri Lanka. She has been at the forefront of organizing garment workers, free trade zone workers, and women workers in precarious employment, challenging both corporate exploitation and state repression.

As a leading voice in the Commercial and Industrial Workers’ Union (CIWU), Swasthika has played a key role in building collective worker power across industries, strengthening trade union democracy, and ensuring that women’s voices remain central to the labor movement.

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