Workers’ lives dark as the tea kettle

15 January 2019 04:40 pm

Tea plantation workers have been agitating for a Rs. 1,000 increase in their basic wage which Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) have been refusing due to the drastic dip in global tea prices. 

Although the income generated through tea- which is one of the main crops in the island- is beneficial for our economy and the big companies owning plantations, it has hardly any significance on the lives of tea plantation workers who still remain as one of the most poorly paid workers in the organised sector. Pix by Piyumi Fonseka

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