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Tea talks fail; workers to go on strike
Our Bureau
Kolkata
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July 5
FOLLOWING a breakdown of talks pertaining to wage revision of tea garden workers in West Bengal, the Defence Committee of Plantation Workers Rights and the Co-ordination Committee of Tea Plantation Workers in West Bengal today said that tea garden workers in the districts of North Bengal would go on an indefinite strike from July 11.
Earlier, negotiations between representatives of the Defence Committee of Plantation Workers Rights and the Co-ordination Committee of Tea Plantation Workers in West Bengal — who together represent 30 tea garden workers' unions — and State Government officials and representatives of tea garden owners failed to yield any acceptable results. Representatives of the unions have also decided to call a one-day, general strike in the tea growing districts of North Bengal.
West Bengal's Labour Minister, Mr Mohd Amin, told reporters here that the talks had failed. The State's Labour Commissioner, Mr Satish Tiwari, said that although the workers' unions had called for an indefinite strike, the State Government as well as the tea garden owners were open to further negotiations in the matter.
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