Siliguri, Aug. 4: A tripartite meeting held in Calcutta today to discuss the revision of the wages of the workers in the Dooars and the Terai tea gardens yielded no results.
Talks, however, would resume tomorrow. Planters and the representatives of trade unions are hopeful that the wage issue would be resolved soon. Earlier, most of the trade unions had demanded a daily wage of Rs 165 while the Progressive Tea Workers’ Union had demanded Rs 250 per day. Today, the PTWU said they can settle for Rs 130 per day. Representatives of the Dooars Branch of the Indian Tea Association have asked the PTWU to reduce the wage demand to below Rs 130.
~The telegraph
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