Rishi Goyala, a tea worker at Sylhet’s Lakatura Tea Estate under the state-owned National Tea Company, has been working at the estate for 40 years. He resides in the workers' colony of the ...

Tea plantation workers in Sylhet under the state-owned National Tea Company, or NTC, have been grappling with severe financial hardships as they have not been paid salaries for more than two months.

Tea workers in Sylhet brought out a torch procession to press home their three-point demand including payment of their dues at Malnicherra tea estate on Tuesday. The workers under the banner of “Tea ...

May 3 -- Tea workers in Sylhet threatened to block Sylhet Airport road on Sunday, to press home their 11-point demand including payment of their dues. Some 2500 workers along with their families ...

On Sunday, the protesters blocked the Sylhet-Dhaka highway as they escalated the strike. The workers’ union is demanding a 150 percent (300 taka or $3.15 a day) rise in their daily wages.

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