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26 Lug 2023

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New Age Bangladesh (Bangladesh)

Workers at Imam and Bawani tea estates stage days-long strike over unpaid wages and other demands

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"Tea garden workers stage demonstrations in Habiganj", July 26 2023

Workers of two tea gardens at Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj continued their indefinite strike for the third consecutive day on Tuesday to press home their five-point demand, including immediate payment of their due wages.

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The workers of Imam Tea Garden and Bawani Tea Garden of the Nabiganj upazila gathered in front of the factory of the Imam Tea Garden in the morning and staged a sit-in there for two hours between 10:00am and 12:00 noon to press for their five-point demand.

The five-point charter of demands include payment of their due wages and festival allowances, reimbursement of the provident fund, ensuring their house rent and medical allowances.

The agitating workers during the sit-in shouted slogans to drum up support in favour of the demands and claimed that they would not join work until meeting their demands.

They alleged that the leaseholders of the gardens did not take any effort to disburse their arrear wages of Tk 81.59 lakh and festival allowances of Tk 14.47 lakh that remained due since the financial year 2019.

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