Equal opportunities are no longer enough to bring the tea workers in Bangladesh out of their current conditions.

Historically, the tea industry in Bangladesh has been standing on the backbreaking labour of tea garden workers

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (September 3, 2022) asked tea garden owners and workers to work together for further development of the industry and save it from collapse.

Nineteen days after they started a demonstration demanding daily wage of Tk 300, tea garden workers have joined work today (August 28, 2022) for daily wage of Tk 170.

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Workers of different tea estates in Sylhet, Habiganj, and Moulvibazar continued work abstention yesterday demanding Tk 300 daily wage.

Many tea plantation workers continued their protest yesterday, disregarding their union leaders’ agreement on the withdrawal of ongoing strike demanding pay hike.

It is the responsibility of the government to ensure justice and protection for tea workers

Demanding a pay hike, tea garden workers across the country yesterday went on an indefinite work abstention.

Workers of 241 tea gardens across the country enforced a work abstention today, demanding increase of their daily wage – Tk 300 from Tk 120.

On  May 20, 1921, around 3,000 tea labourers were waiting at Chandpur railway station.

“We can read it ourselves inside our homes but we can’t organise a reading circle to share the contents of the manual, without

After decades of discrimination, the communities of tea plantation workers in Sylhet region are on the verge of losing their native languages and traditions.

Workers of a tea garden in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj are left starving as they are not getting paid their wages or receiving their rations for the last 13 weeks.

Tea garden workers issue a seven-day ultimatum to the authorities to meet their demand for cancelling the special economic zone (SEZ) in Chunarughat of Habiganj.

The bloody birth of Bangladesh in 1971 has witnessed many brave stories.