tea garden workers
Why are tea garden workers trapped in a cycle of poverty?
Historically, the tea industry in Bangladesh has been standing on the backbreaking labour of tea garden workers
“Work together for further development of tea industry, save it from collapse”
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (September 3, 2022) asked tea garden owners and workers to work together for further development of the industry and save it from collapse.
Unhappy tea workers return to work
Nineteen days after they started a demonstration demanding daily wage of Tk 300, tea garden workers have joined work today (August 28, 2022) for daily wage of Tk 170.
Tk 300 wage or nothing!
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Tea workers defiant
Workers of different tea estates in Sylhet, Habiganj, and Moulvibazar continued work abstention yesterday demanding Tk 300 daily wage.
Most tea workers continue protest for pay hike
Many tea plantation workers continued their protest yesterday, disregarding their union leaders’ agreement on the withdrawal of ongoing strike demanding pay hike.
Why are the tea workers on strike?
It is the responsibility of the government to ensure justice and protection for tea workers
Tea workers’ demo for raise: ‘No one cares about our pain’
Demanding a pay hike, tea garden workers across the country yesterday went on an indefinite work abstention.
Demanding pay hike, tea workers go on work abstention
Workers of 241 tea gardens across the country enforced a work abstention today, demanding increase of their daily wage – Tk 300 from Tk 120.
Miscarriage in the tea gardens
“We can read it ourselves inside our homes but we can’t organise a reading circle to share the contents of the manual, without
Tea Garden Workers: Losing links to the roots
After decades of discrimination, the communities of tea plantation workers in Sylhet region are on the verge of losing their native languages and traditions.
Madhabpur tea workers starving, unpaid for 13 weeks
Workers of a tea garden in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj are left starving as they are not getting paid their wages or receiving their rations for the last 13 weeks.
Habiganj tea workers set 7-day ultimatum
Tea garden workers issue a seven-day ultimatum to the authorities to meet their demand for cancelling the special economic zone (SEZ) in Chunarughat of Habiganj.
[WATCH] Fighting tanks, guns with bows and arrows
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