After Days Of Unpaid Labour, Kerala Workers Out Of Ways To Stay Afloat

[Tea Plantation Workers - Related News]

Selvy did not expect to get paid today. A worker at a tea plantation in Kerala's Kollam district, the 42-year-old mother has not been paid for two weeks and does not know how she will manage her children's school fee. "I am borrowing rice, fish and vegetables from shops since last two weeks. How can I do that for a third week? I have no money - not for myself, not for my children back home," Selvy says.