Tea workers go back to work with previous wage upon PM's assurance
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Acclaimed poet Nirmalendu Goon has demanded that the daily wage of tea workers be raised to Tk 300. "Don't force me to take to the streets. It won't be good," the poet wrote on his Facebook page this (August 22, 2022) morning.
Bangladesh Tea workers strike: Tea workers, who were on an indefinite work abstention across the country for increasing the minimum wage, have decided to join work at the current daily wage of Tk 120.
Tea workers blocked the Sylhet-Moulvibazar highway and Moulvibazar-Borolekha road on the eighth day of their strike demanding Tk 300 daily wage.
Moulvibazar Deputy Commissioner Mir Nahid Ahsan has said the daily wage of tea workers has been increased from Tk 120 to Tk 145, on the directive of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.