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Tea workers go on indefinite strike demanding better pay

Demanding a pay hike, tea garden workers across the country yesterday went on an indefinite work abstention.

The State unit of the BJP said that the party-led Government in the State has taken bold steps for the all-round development of the tea garden workers.

Workers of 241 tea gardens across the country enforced a work abstention today, demanding increase of their daily wage – Tk 300 from Tk 120.

The Doloo estate’s workers, already facing precarious financial conditions, are concerned that the clearance will take away their livelihood.

Tea workers in Mominchhara are suffering for authorities’ inaction.

The State Government decided to form a Cabinet committee to settle the issue of tea workers minimum wage.

The tea workers and the employees of the tea gardens belonging to Apeejay Tea Limited on Monday staged a nine-hour hunger strike

An ESIC (Employees State Insurance Corporation) medical college for the tea workers is on the cards in Assam.

The decisive issue posed by the bloody repression in Northern Ireland was the development of an independent revolutionary socialist party to unite the working class throughout Ireland with workers in Britain themselves coming into mass struggles—a section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.