{"id":86075,"date":"2022-08-17T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T04:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=86075"},"modified":"2022-08-24T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:49:09","slug":"4-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/csr-news-en\/4-224\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Nearly 150,000 workers at 200+ tea plantations strike for pay rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike Saturday to demand a 150 percent rise to their dollar-a-day wages, which researchers say are among the lowest in the world. The minimum wage for a tea plantation worker in the country is 120 taka a day &#8212; about $1.25 at official rates, but only just over a dollar on the free market.<\/p>\n<p>Unions are demanding an increase to 300 taka a day, with inflation rising and the currency depreciating, and said that workers in the country\u2019s 232 tea gardens began a full-scale strike on Saturday, after four days of two-hour stoppages. \u201cNo tea worker will pluck tea leaves or work in the leaf processing plants as long as the authority doesn\u2019t pay heed to our demands,\u201d Sitaram Bin, a committee member of the Bangladesh Tea Workers\u2019 Union, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Plantation owners have offered an increase of 14 taka a day, after an 18-taka rise last year and M. Shah Alom, chairman of the Bangladesh Tea Association, said operators were \u201cgoing through difficult times with profit declining in recent times.\u201d \u201cThe cost of production is increasing. Our expenses have increased as the price of gas, fertilizer and diesel have gone up,\u201d he told AFP. Researchers say tea workers &#8212; who live in some of the country&#8217;s most remote areas &#8212; have been systematically exploited by the industry for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-humanrights.org\/en\/latest-news\/bangladesh-nearly-150000-workers-at-200-bangladeshi-tea-plantations-strike-for-pay-rise\/\">Business &amp; Human Rights Resource Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike Saturday to demand a 150 percent rise to their dollar-a-day wages,&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,11659],"tags":[1150,9702,20586],"class_list":["post-86075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csr-news-en","category-science-news","tag-bangladesh","tag-payment","tag-tea-plantations","wpcat-32-id","wpcat-11659-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/teacup.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86831,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86075\/revisions\/86831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}