The joint action council of established trade unions in
the plantation sector in Kerala will launch an indefinite strike on
Monday Sep 28,2015 to press for its demand for a daily wage of ₹500.
This
follows the failure of negotiations brokered by the State Government
earlier on Saturday, within the Plantation Labour Committee, which
represents the managements of tea, cardamom, rubber and other
plantations.
While the talks thrashed out solutions for several demands
including health insurance coverage, the talks got deadlocked over the
crucial issue of raising daily wages from the current ₹232 to ₹500.
While managements were unwilling to move forward on the issue, contending that such a hike would force the shutdown of plantations, the unions stuck to the demand
Note
Representatives of women tea-leaf pickers of Munnar have announced that they will not join in the strike announced by the established trade unions
They added that they pinned their hopes on the PLC talks
on Tuesday. Kanam Rajendran, Secretary of the Communist Party of
India’s Kerala unit, which has a strong trade union in the plantation
sector, said the non-participation of the Munnar women wouldn’t affect
the strike.
It was the Munnar women’s successful
strike earlier this month for 20 % bonus that re-opened the issue
of higher daily wages.
The nearly 5,000 women tea-pickers of the Kanan
Devan Hills Plantations Company had, keeping out established trade
unions, struck work for nine days and secured their main demand of
higher bonus.
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