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The Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA) has demanded the State government to fix Rs 351 as the minimum wage for the tea garden workers.

The Congress party feels that it is a rather harsh gift by the BJP government meted out to the tea workers for one mistake of voting for BJP. It is no doubt a rude shock for the simple tea workers to believe in the false promises of the BJP and the Congress feels that this is a lesson for others to learn as well, it said.

Notification on Enhancing Daily Wage of Tea Workers in Assam by Rs 50 Stands Cancelled The Labour Welfare Department, through a notification on May 26 has cancelled its earlier notification which had enhanced the daily wage of tea garden workers.   |  28 May 2021 10:35 AM GMT Wage of Tea Workers in Assam: The Assam state government who have earlier in a notification announced to increase the daily wage of tea garden workers in the state by Rs. 50, now stands cancelled. According to reports, the Labour Welfare Department, through a notification on May 26 has cancelled its earlier notificati...

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Kenyan Tea Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever For Failing to Protect Them From Attacks Tea pluckers say the brutal attacks were "foreseeable" but the household-goods giant failed to protect them. Representative image. A boy standing by houses on a tea plantation near Nairob, Kenya. Photo: Bryon Lippincott/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 World17/Mar/2021 At least four men armed with machetes and clubs broke into Anne Johnson’s home. They forced her husband and 11-year-old son into the bedroom and kept Anne and her teenage daughters in a separate room. To this day, she doesn’t know for c...