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- 150,000 Bangladeshi tea workers strike against dollar-a-day wagesThe minimum wage for a tea plantation worker in the country is 120 taka a day -- about $1.25 at official rates, but only just over a dollar...
- Following the killing of a doctor, doctors resign from tea estates in AssamThe IMA has demanded that the Assam government ensure exemplary punishment to the culprits. Police has taken into custody around 26 people.
- Asom Chah Mazdoor Sanga have called for tea estate bandh on January 8The bandh is called following the two day strike called by the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on January 8 and January 9 next year.
- Three-day North Bengal tea strike ends, but crisis continuesTrade unions have threatened to strike again if the government fails to find a resolution by August 15.
- Tea Board proposes Rs 100 crore package for Darjeeling gardensThe Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA), however, had sought a much higher package to compensate for the revenue loss and for payments to work...
- Over 4.5 lakh tea workers in Bengal to go on strikeThe strike will be followed by other movement steps until the issue does not find any acceptable solution.
- Kanan Devan: The first tea plantation company to be majority-owned by workforce, employee-stakeholders launch their biggest agitationThe strikes were an aberration but what has happened has happened. There will be no victimisation, says Mathew Abraham, managing director, ...
- Munnar's women tea workers lead the strikeThe agitators were not only adamant that they wouldn't deal with trade unions to negotiate their demand for a 20% bonus but also refused to...
- CITU leader rapped for 'Tamil rebels support Munnar' JibeThe CPM has rejected the view put forward by its trade union wing that Tamil militants were behind the strike of the tea workers of Munnar.
- KDHP Munnar may stir up discontent in other tea estates like HML and AVT in KeralaWorkers of KDHP in Munnar ended their strike after 9 days, with the company agreeing to their demand for higher bonus, but repercussions ar...
- Munnar tea workers call off stirThe Munnar tea workers' nineday-long agitation has come to an end in the last round of talks with CM Oommen Chandy and the agitators' repre...
- Munnar-based KDHP runs into trouble as workers intensify stirMunnar-based company Kannan Devan Hills Plantation today said it was incurring "huge loss on a daily basis" due to the ongoing strike by it...
- 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.
- BJP wants to get into CITU, INTUC and others joint movement issue in tea belt“The wage settlement is our definite priority and we are in support of the movement,” said BJP Vice President S S Ahluwalia.
- Many of Darjeeling tea gardens may close down operation due to ongoing strikeTea gardens in Darjeeling may go for close if the impasse in hills due to ongoing indefinite strike continues.
- Erratic monsoon, labour unrest hit cardamom cropThe vagaries of weather and ongoing strike by cardamom plantation workers for wage increase have dimmed the hopes for a better cardamom cro...
- Three lakh tea garden workers observe one-day token strikeAround three lakh workers in 300 tea gardens of North Bengal and Doars area today observed a one-day's token strike demanding renewal of th...
- 'Darjeeling strike will hit tea exports'Senior West Bengal Congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyay today said the indefinite strike in the Darjeeling hills for a separate Gorkhaland st...
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