Tea workers call off strike after wage hike by Tk 25
20 August 2022, 06:51 pm | Updated: 24 November 2024, 07:47 pm
Tea workers’ union leaders have withdrawn their indefinite strike after assurance of raising their wages to 145 from Tk 120.
General Secretary of Tea Workers Union Nipen Paul declared this after getting assurance from the Prime Minister on Saturday.
“Our wages will be raised by Tk 25 and the Prime Minister has assured us that she will hold a meeting after her visit to India. In that meeting we will inform her about our demands. From Sunday all workers will resume their work in their respective gardens,” he said.
The labour department sat in a meeting with the leaders of the tea workers union at the office of the divisional labour department in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar at 3.00pm Saturday. Labour department director general Khaled Mamun Chowdhury, lawmaker of Moulvibazar-4 constituency, Mohammed Abdus Shahid and representatives of Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Sylhet and Chattogram district administrations were present at the meeting on behalf of the government while central leaders of Tea Workers Union represented their people.
