Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
This year, on the occasion of the seventh International tea day (ITD), we the trade unions and workers and small growers organizations from all over India once again bring to the notice of tea consumers all over the world and to the citizens of the world, that there is an inherent injustice in the allocation of benefits along the tea value chain. The big corporations should stand scrutiny on the disproportionate accrual of benefits and cannot escape responsibility by shedding off workers or divesting off plantation investment and yet, procuring tea from the auction houses. Governments and the industry should ensure living wage for tea workers. All tea garden workers, who do not have land, particularly women workers, must be guaranteed right to housing and land in tea plantations or in nearby areas.
