Workers at Imam and Bawani tea estates stage days-long strike over unpaid wages and other demands
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 7월 26일
위치: 방글라데시
기업 페이지
Imam Tea Estate - Supplier영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 차 , Gender not reported )토픽들
임금 착취 , 사회 보장결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, BHRRC에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: Imam recently supplied tea to Unilever, according to a supplier list publicly disclosed by Unilever. Unilever provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. Lipton Teas and Infusions, which took over most of Unilever’s tea business in 2022, was also asked for a response. Lipton said it does not source tea from the estate.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 7월 26일
위치: 방글라데시
기업 페이지
Bawani Tea Garden - Supplier영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 300
Workers: ( 300 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 차 , Gender not reported )토픽들
임금 착취 , 사회 보장결과
Response sought: 아니오
출처: News outlet
"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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