Workers' wage issue: Bengal tea sector to face huge loss due to bandhConglomeration of trade unions have announced a month-long agitation and 3- day strike. The entrepreneurs are apprehending unprecedented lo...
07 Jul, 2018, 04.25 PM IST
Tea bonus talks have seen dragging on, affecting festive season salesSince 2011, tea estate trade unions and planters have been following a 20% bonus policy, with exceptions being made for a few gardens on a ...
06 Sep, 2017, 06.50 PM IST
Issue of wage settlement fuels crisis for Bengal tea industryThe daily wage for tea workers is negotiated for a term of three years, a system prevailing since 1977. New negotiation began in Feb 2014 f...
05 Apr, 2017, 06.33 PM IST
Bengal tea belt may witness major unrest on workers wage issueIt could prove to be a tough task for planters to withstand any kind of unrest in gardens at this moment when plantations are approaching t...
16 Feb, 2017, 06.01 PM IST
Tea workers' trade union forum claims workers to get 19 per cent puja bonusSenior CITU leader and Convenor of Joint Forum of Trade Unions, an umbrella organisation of 24 trade unions working in tea sector, Ziaul Al...
19 Sep, 2016, 02.46 PM IST
Trinamool Congress trade union under fire for 'vulgar' I-Day showThe incident came to light after a video was played in TV channels where a scantily dressed woman was dancing to the tunes of a song at an ...
15 Aug, 2016, 11.45 PM IST
Long pending tea workers wage issue is brewing up as a major crisisThe long pending issue may culminate into a major crisis for the whole industry, a pillar for the economy of hilly and foothills region in ...
26 Apr, 2016, 05.39 PM IST
TMC announces candidates for 70 constituencies in KeralaTrinamool Congress today announced its candidates for 70 Assembly constituencies in Kerala after Mamata Banerjee said she would visit the s...
12 Mar, 2016, 03.30 PM IST
Bengal Tea belt likely to face yet another major turmoilThe tea belt in northern WB is heading for turmoil after tea trade unions warned aggressive protests against proposed food grain distributi...
15 Feb, 2016, 04.23 PM IST
CPI(M) gains ground in it's former stronghold at Durgapur before October 3 civic pollsCPI(M) has managed to thwart victory of the ruling Trinamool Congress in the elections to the Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) workers union held...
01 Oct, 2015, 04.27 PM IST
One dies in CITU, INTTUC clash at West Bengals Burdwan districtOne person died in a clash between Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) trade union activists at Jamuria in Burdwan district.
18 Aug, 2015, 12.08 PM IST
Take Army help to hold job tests, Calcutta High Court tells LICSources said Ghatak and Sen’s men had repeatedly intimidated LIC officials against holding the exam unless their candidates were allowed to...
05 Feb, 2015, 11.26 AM IST
Strike: West Bengal ex-minister detained; functioning hit at tea gardensStrike has evoked a mixed response as life has been quite normal in Darjeeling district while normal life was affected in Jalpaiguri.
12 Nov, 2014, 12.57 PM IST
Manaksia's Haldia unit issues suspension of work noticeAccording to the official, plant supervisor N K Singh was beaten so badly that he had to be hospitalised on November 1.
03 Nov, 2014, 05.18 PM IST
Assam tea trade union is joining hands with West Bengal counterpartsThe new mix is in the tea trade unionism, on issue of wage structure for the workers of this century old labour intensive green culture.
27 Aug, 2014, 04.30 PM IST
TMC leader Chunnu Lal Mishra's threats may drive Eastern Coalfields to shut mineA senior manager of the company was hospitalised after being beaten up by Mishra, who leads the Trinamool Congress labour arm INTTUC at the...
23 Jul, 2014, 12.11 PM IST
Iron wire factory closed in Kalyani, 650 joblessAuthorities of an iron wire factory in Kalyani Industrial Belt today announced suspension of work, rendering about 650 workers jobless.
05 Apr, 2013, 10.40 PM IST