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.

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of workers of 23 tea gardens in Sylhet observed a two hour work abstention on Tuesday demanding a daily wage of Tk300 due to price hike of daily essentials. The workers of Sylhet Valley went ...

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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Hundreds of workers of 232 tea gardens observed a work abstention for the third day on Thursday in Moulvibazar of Sylhet demanding a daily wage of Tk300 due to the price hike of daily essentials.