Articles for Tea Workers

Thamirabarani tragedy: When a march to champion the cause of Manjolai tea estate workers turned fatal
5 months ago

Thamirabarani tragedy: When a march to champion the cause of Manjolai tea estate workers turned fatal

The Hindu  

On July 23, a quarter century ago, what began as a peaceful procession championing the cause of the Manjolai tea estate workers in Tirunelveli district turned into a watery grave for 17 persons attempting to flee from the ‘lathi’ blows of the police. On July 23, the Opposition parties — the Tamil Maanila Congress, the Puthiya Thamizhagam, the Communist Party …

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Bangladesh tea workers struggle as heat and drought scorch fields
1 year, 6 months ago

Bangladesh tea workers struggle as heat and drought scorch fields

The Hindu  

Phul Kumari has picked tea in northeastern Bangladesh for three decades, but the 45-year-old says she has never experienced heat and drought like that during this harvest season. "It's too hot and I can't continue working," she said, as she took a break for water at the tea estate where she labours in Sreemangal, south of the city of Sylhet. …

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Bangladesh: 150,000 tea workers strike against dollar-a-day wages
2 years, 4 months ago

Bangladesh: 150,000 tea workers strike against dollar-a-day wages

Firstpost  

The minimum wage for a tea plantation worker in the country is 120 taka a day, which is about $1.25 at official rates, but only just over a dollar on the free market Dhaka: Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike Saturday to demand a 150 percent rise to their dollar-a-day wages, which researchers …

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Assam cleared tea estate for ‘imaginary’ airport
2 years, 6 months ago

Assam cleared tea estate for ‘imaginary’ airport

The Hindu  

The Assam government had used a fleet of bulldozers and excavators to clear swathes of a tea estate for an “imaginary” airport, information provided by the Civil Aviation Ministry has revealed. In a May 31 reply to an application under the Right to Information Act, the Ministry said it had not received any proposal for the construction of a greenfield …

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Man-Animal Conflict: Teasing Wild Elephants Costs Assam Man His Life
3 years, 4 months ago

Man-Animal Conflict: Teasing Wild Elephants Costs Assam Man His Life

News 18  

Pascal Munda of Morongi tea estate at Numaligarh in Upper Assam pays a high price for allegedly teasing wild elephants. On Sunday evening, tea garden workers came face to face with a herd of wild elephants crossing the National Highway 39. During the last 10 years, at least 812 people have died in Assam due to human-elephant conflict, Environment and …

Man Wild Elephants Costs Assam Suklabaidya
'Nothing Else to Rely on': As Climate Change Threatens Kenyan Tea, Millions of Workers Seen at Risk
3 years, 7 months ago

'Nothing Else to Rely on': As Climate Change Threatens Kenyan Tea, Millions of Workers Seen at Risk

News 18  

Climate change is set to ravage tea production in Kenya, the biggest global supplier of black tea, threatening the livelihoods of millions of plantation workers, a report by British charity Christian Aid warned on Monday. People in my community will consider running away from tea farming, with jobs lost, and consumers of tea might see the price rise.” According to …

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Assam Election: First Phase of Polling Could Decide Final Result
3 years, 8 months ago

Assam Election: First Phase of Polling Could Decide Final Result

The Quint  

Upper and North Assam has a comparatively lower population of Bengali-speaking voters and a higher concentration of ethnic Assamese voters, tea tribes and plain tribes like Misings and Sonowal Cacharis. But the BJP government's failure to fulfill its promise of providing Rs 351 per day wage to tea garden workers has left many dissatisfied. Three of the Congress' most prominent …

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Amid parties’ bid to woo tea-tribes, a legal battle
3 years, 9 months ago

Amid parties’ bid to woo tea-tribes, a legal battle

Hindustan Times  

On Tuesday, the Gauhati High Court directed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Assam not to take coercive action against tea garden owners over non-compliance of a recent governmentorder regarding increase in daily wages of tea-garden workers in the state. The order follows another by the court on March 8 staying a government order issued on February 23 raising daily …

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