Sri Lanka: Workers targeted for resisting imposition of revenue-sharing system, which threatens to reduce earnings
摘要
日期: 2022年3月23日
地點: 斯里蘭卡
企業
Mahanilu Tea Estate (part of Horana Plantations) - Supplier受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 茶 , Gender not reported )議題
Wage Theft回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年3月23日
地點: 斯里蘭卡
企業
Gouravilla Tea Estate (part of Horana Plantations) - Supplier , Tetley (part of Tata Consumer Products) - Buyer , Tesco - Buyer , Unilever - Buyer , Lipton Teas and Infusions (formerly ekaterra) - Buyer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 茶 , Gender not reported )回應
已邀請回應：是，由BHRRC
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: Tea estate supplied Tea Estate supplied Tetley; Unilever; and Tesco according to the BHRRC Tea Supply Chain Tracker. All companies provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre, ekaterra - Unilever's tea business which was sold to the CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII in July 2022 - also provided a response. Tetley and Unilever informed the Resource Centre that they did not source from the estate in 2022.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2023年5月23日
地點: 斯里蘭卡
企業
Horana Plantations PLC - Parent Company , Tetley (part of Tata Consumer Products) - Buyer , Ringtons Limited - Buyer , Stockholm Tea Estate (part of Horana Plantations) , Marks & Spencer - Buyer , Tesco - Buyer , Unilever - Buyer , Lipton Teas and Infusions (formerly ekaterra) - Buyer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 茶 , Gender not reported )議題
Wage Theft回應
已邀請回應：是，由BHRRC
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: This estate supplied Tetley; Unilever; Marks & Spencer; Tesco and Ringtons according to the BHRRC Tea Supply Chain Tracker and data held by Open Supply Hub. All companies provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. ekaterra - Unilever's tea business which was sold to the CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII in July 2022 - also provided a response. Tetley, Unilever and Tesco informed the Resource Centre that they did not source from the estate in 2022.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年3月23日
地點: 斯里蘭卡
企業
Fairlawn Tea Estate (part of Horana Plantations) - Supplier , Horana Plantations PLC - Parent Company , Tetley (part of Tata Consumer Products) - Buyer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 茶 , Gender not reported )回應
已邀請回應：是，由BHHRC
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: This tea estate supplied to Tetley according to the BHRRC Tea Supply Chain Tracker. Tetley provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre, informing that it did not supply from the estate in 2022.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年3月23日
地點: 斯里蘭卡
企業
Kakutelle Tea Estate (owned by Maskeliya Plantations) - Supplier , Ahmad Tea - Buyer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 茶 , Gender not reported )議題
結社自由 , Wage Theft回應
已邀請回應：是，由BHRRC
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: Tea estate supplied to Ahmad Tea according to the BHRRC Tea Supply Chain Tracker; Ahmad Tea provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre, informing that it did not supply from the estate in 2022.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年3月23日
地點: 斯里蘭卡
企業
Alton Tea Estate (part of Horana Plantations) - Supplier , Horana Plantations PLC - Parent Company , Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate - Buyer , Ringtons Limited - Buyer , Tetley (part of Tata Consumer Products) - Buyer , Typhoo - Buyer , Marks & Spencer - Buyer , Tesco - Buyer , Unilever - Supplier , Morrisons - Buyer , Lipton Teas and Infusions (formerly ekaterra) - Buyer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 54
工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 茶 , Gender not reported )議題
Wage Theft , 結社自由回應
已邀請回應：是，由BHRRC
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: Tea estate supplied to Ahmad Tea (linked to parent company); Bettys & Taylors; Ringtons; Tetley; Marks & Spencer; Unilever; Morrisons; Typhoo; and Tesco according to the BHRRC Tea Supply Chain Tracker and data held by Open Supply Hub. All companies provided a response to the Resource Centre's request for comment. Ahmad Tea, Unilever, Tesco and Morrisons confirmed that they did not source from the estate in 2022. ekaterra - Unilever's tea business which was sold to the CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII in July 2022 - also provided a response.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年3月23日
地點: 斯里蘭卡
企業
Welioya Tea Estate - Supplier , Ringtons Limited - Buyer , Tetley (part of Tata Consumer Products) - Buyer , Teavana (part of Starbucks) - Buyer , Marks & Spencer - Buyer , Lipton Teas and Infusions (formerly ekaterra) - Buyer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 54
工人: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 , 茶 , Gender not reported )議題
結社自由 , Wage Theft回應
已邀請回應：是，由BHRRC
載有回應的故事： (查看更多)
後續行動: Tea estate supplied to Ringtons; Tetley; Starbucks Teavana and Marks & Spencer according to the BHRRC Tea Supply Chain Tracker and data held by Open Supply Hub. All companies provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. ekaterra - Unilever's tea business which was sold to the CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII in July 2022 - also provided a response. Starbucks Teavana; Tetley; Marks & Spencer informed the Resource Centre that they did not source from the estate in 2022.
資訊來源: News outlet
"Attend Sri Lankan estate workers action committee meeting and demand reinstatement of all victimised workers", 23 March 2022
Plantation Workers’ Action Committees (PWAC) from the Alton, Glenugie and Abbotsleigh estates are holding a joint online meeting at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 27 to demand the unconditional reinstatement of all sacked estate workers. A total of 54 workers have been victimised by management and sacked from the Alton, Katukelle and Welioya estates.
The meeting will discuss the escalating assault on workers’ rights, including increased workloads, wage cuts, the so-called revenue-share model, and other measures to drive up productivity.
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Plantation workers have long resisted the exploitative revenue-share system, which distributes a plot of land with 1,000 to 1,500 tea bushes to individual workers on a contract basis. Workers and their families are expected to tend the tea bushes, with some inputs provided by the company, and harvest the crop. The leaves are handed over to the company, which deducts its expenses and profit, with the balance given to the worker as his/her income. When fully implemented, workers lose their Employees Provident Fund and other hard-won rights.
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Plantation companies started implementing revenue-sharing in full last year, after suppressing a series of struggles by workers at estates in Alton in Up-Cot, Katukelle in Talawakelle and Welioya near Hatton. The Horana Plantation Company (HPC) has begun imposing the system at its estates in Alton, Fairlawn, Gouraville, Stockholm and Mahanilu after a brutal assault on its workers at Alton .
In February 2021, police arrested 24 workers and two youth from the Alton estate on frame up charges of physically assaulting estate managers. The witch hunt was launched after workers went on strike for 47 days to demand higher wages and oppose management harassment. The arrested workers now face a criminal court trial. Using the same bogus charges, HPC then summarily sacked 38 workers, who are now struggling to earn any income. ..
A worker from Fairlawn estate said, “Our rights are being removed by management, following introduction of the revenue-sharing system. The water supply system in our estate has completely collapsed and we have to bear the cost of its repair.”
Katukelle estate is managed by Maskeliya Plantation Company. When workers began taking action against higher workloads last September they were targeted in a series of management and police attacks. Eleven workers were sacked and now face court cases.
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