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Joined March 2019
THIRST's new report Alternative Approaches in the Tea Sector -published today- explores non-traditional business models and trading systems with the potential to improve tea farmers' and workers' human rights
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Only after loving tea trees can workers learn how to harvest properly. Because tea trees are leafy plants, if people harvest properly, the next season the trees will produce more buds and thus the yield will increase.
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Workers @ Tata Consumer Products' UK have ended their strike over "poverty pay" for its mainly female workforce. Unite said it was pleased with the company's improved offer and the GMB said workers "can get back to making the UK's favourite brew again".
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“The daily wage of 170 taka is too little for a family to survive. A single meal for one person costs more than 200 taka. Many families go hungry,” For the last six weeks they have no wages at all.
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"Though tea workers are covered under the Bangladesh Labor Act, they do not enjoy the same protections as workers in other industries." Solidarity Country Program Director AKM Nasim
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"I've gone without wages for the last six weeks. Each day is a challenge, as we survive on just water, salt, and rice. The shopkeepers have stopped offering credit, and I feel too ashamed to ask anyone for help."
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ILO project strengthens Assam Min. Wage Board facilitating data-driven dialogues btwn gov't, trade unions & employers. Min. wage setting in Assam is now based on scientific data, incorporating needs of workers & their families, plus other economic factors.
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RT @WanguKanjaF: The petitioners and interested parties attended the 3day hearing for the Constitutional Petition E006/2024 against John Ch…
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Sudden jump in tea prices to more than Rs 22 per kg for green leaf for S Indian tea due to dip on production has left the tea farmers in South India in a jubilant mood.
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“If the garden authorities don’t pay our wages and rations soon, we will starve.”
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The Assam cabinet will do away with the provision in the Assam Tea Plantation Provident Fund scheme, which barred a tea garden worker whose monthly wage is more than Rs 15,000 from getting provident fund benefits.
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Tea workers demand financial accountability from Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha trade union over the use of funds deducted from their wages.
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Darjeeling small tea growers write to Tea Board of India, seeking complete ban on import of Nepal tea into India, esp. during winter when tea production in India stops.
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Tea workers of the state-owned National Tea Company Limited (NTC) have launched an indefinite strike since Tuesday, protesting six weeks of unpaid wages.
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Suspected militants of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (Ulfa-I) have kidnapped a tea factory supervisor from the Himalaya Tea Company in Tinsukia district near the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
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