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Tucked into the side of a precipitous mountain, Amba Estate is a tea operation that shares 10 percent of its revenues with its workers. That's a novel approach here in Sri Lanka, a country that's ...
The West Bengal Doctors Forum (WBDF) on Sunday condemned the killing of a senior doctor at a government hospital in Assam's Jorhat by tea estate workers the previous day. The tea workers were ...
While many large private tea estates in the state are slashing various employee perks and bonuses citing industry crisis, the Mananthavady Tribal Plantation Cooperative Society Ltd founded to ...
A group of tea estate workers under the aegis of a joint action council harvested tea leaves on a tea estate at Mepadi in the district on Thursday as part of an ongoing agitation demanding ...
TIRUNELVELI: The tea estate workers of Manjolai are upbeat as they are seeing light at the end of the tunnel after one of their co-workers has been elected as chairperson of Manimuthar town panchayat.
GAUHATI, India (AP) -- Hundreds of tea estate workers surrounded the plantation owner's home in India's northeastern state of Assam and set it on fire over a labor dispute, killing him and his ...
The Manjolai tea garden workers have appealed to the State government to continue to operate the tea estate even after it is acquired from the The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, the present ...
The Revenue-Sharing Model (RSM) gives workers a part of the estate land on which they grow, pluck, and sell tea back to the company. It differs from the traditional daily wage model in that a worker ...
PANCHTHAR: In breach of the nationwide lockdown imposed by government to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a tea estate has deployed its workers for plucking tea leaves at Yangbarak and Falelung ...
Glenugie tea estate Deeside division workers at Maskeliya in Sri Lanka’s central plantation district have spoken out against the police and company management frame-up of eight fellow workers.
The management of the Kohinoor tea estate in Alipurduar district reportedly abandoned the garden late on Tuesday, leaving around 900 workers jobless since Wednesday. Such a sudden departure of the ...