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Tea workers on strike over bonus: Mamata refuses to intervene, says Labour Commission to decide

September 30, 2024 7:34 pm

Says bonus issue was resolved by her govt, calls present deadlock ‘politically motivated’.

Tea workers’ group on Chai Sundari Housing Scheme: ‘Housing scheme’s top-down approach to disrupt lives’

March 03, 2023 4:18 am

Based on a “study”, it claimed to have been conducted with the help of an architect, the Paschim Banga Cha Majdoor Samity said that tea workers live in community settlements and “the shift to new houses where only a nuclear family can reside will mean a breakdown of the community”.

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West Bengal: On day two of strike, tea garden workers hold rallies, activists speak out in their support

August 09, 2018 7:56 am

A strike was called by the Joint Forum of Tea Garden Workers for a hike in minimum wage. The forum has demanded minimum daily wage of Rs 239 besides payment for electricity, clothing and education of children.

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Two tea garden workers die due to ‘starvation’, panel finds ‘malnutrition’

December 04, 2015 4:10 am

The district administration denied starvation as the cause behind the deaths

Tea workers should get actual minimum wages: Sitharaman

October 14, 2014 2:42 am

Representatives of some labour unions pointed out to her during the day-long consultation that tea plantation labourers in Assam were getting only Rs 94 per day, whereas their counterparts in southern states like Kerala get Rs 254.