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The State-level Joint Action Council of Textile Mill Workers' Trade Unions has sought formation of a committee to determine minimum wages for textile mill workers. In Tamil Nadu there is no minimum wages for textile mill workers. Three years ago, the minimum wages for apprentice workers at the mills was fixed as Rs.283 a day. The apprentice workers now get about Rs.330 a day and that too only in a few mills. In Kerala, the minimum wages that a worker who joins a textile mill gets Rs.485 a day.
