Tea workers
Tea workers demand Tk 30,000 in arrears, get Tk 11,000 instead
The tea workers demanded Tk 30,000 in arrears for 20 months in line with the hiked wages that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked tea garden owners to pay in August last year
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
Can Horibol pursue his dreams?
“I didn't think I could come this far,” said a beaming Horibol Bonarjee, a student of Moulvibazar Government High School, who passed this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC).
PM cherishes bangles gifted by tea workers
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday (September 3, 2022) greeted the tea workers from the core of her heart for the bangles they gifted her during their visit to Gono Bhaban.
Tea workers’ strike ends. What’s next?
Tea workers may not have had their demands fulfilled, but their united voice brings in a new era of workers' rights.
Tea garden owners claim losses for strike
Tea estate owners in Bangladesh yesterday said they suffered losses of up to Tk 20 crore per day during the recent 18-day protest by estate workers as significant amounts of tea were wasted for the work abstention.
Tea workers return to work after 15 days
After a 15-day work abstention, tea workers resumed work for a daily wage of Tk 170 yesterday morning.
Tk 170 wage decision draws mixed reactions from tea workers
Tea workers have expressed mixed reactions to the daily wage set at Tk 170, following a meeting between tea garden owners and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Gono Bhaban.
PM sets tea workers’ wage at Tk 170
The daily wage of tea workers has been fixed at Tk 170. Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Ahmad Kaikaus briefed the media after a meeting of tea garden owners with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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.
National Tea Day: ‘Can’t even get a good night’s sleep’
Monaf Mia, a 65-year-old tea worker in Mominchhara tea garden of Sylhet’s Fenchuganj, works in the gardens all day, only to come back home at night to get soaked in rainwater, due to the dilapidated condition of the roof over his head.
Tea workers’ suffering is not just a labour issue
On May 20, 1921, around 3,000 tea labourers were waiting at Chandpur railway station.
Tea workers in fear of attack
Around five thousand families of agitating tea garden workers in Chandpur of Habiganj are passing their days in fear of attack by Chunarughat upazila chairman men who allegedly roughed up three protesters on Saturday.