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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 say are among the lowest in the world.
The average wage of a tea worker in Bangladesh is about 120 taka a day ($1.25), which is among the lowest wage in the world, according to researchers.
Researchers say their wages are among the lowest in the world. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Plantation owners have offered an increase of 14 taka a day, after an 18 taka rise last year and M. Shah Alom, chairman of the Bangladesh Tea Association, said operators were "going through difficult times with profit declining in recent times."
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