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The workers are also protesting as the ‘Wage Agreement’ between the owners and workers is yet to be signed, reports a Moulvibazar correspondent quoting Raju Guala, president, Bangladesh Cha Sramik Union, (Tea plantation workers union ) Sylhet valley.
The workers are currently paid Tk 85 per day, but they are demanding Tk 200 at present, the correspondent said.
“The owners are delaying the wage agreement, which is detrimental to the tea laborers,” Raju Guala said. “The wage agreement is usually signed every two years, but it is already three years and there is no sign of the new agreement,” Guala added.
#strikes#bangladesh#desiblr#sylhet#basf#bangladesh anarcho syndicalist federation#tea workers#community building#practical anarchy#practical anarchism#anarchist society#practical#revolution#anarchism#daily posts#communism#anti capitalist#anti capitalism#late stage capitalism#organization#grassroots#grass roots#anarchists#libraries#leftism#social issues#economy#economics#climate change#climate crisis
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Indian tea production has been in severe crisis since the mid nineties largely due to neo-liberal structural adjustments in the Indian economy. The size of the tea industry, which is second only to China and accounts for 25 percent of global tea production, has made this a huge blow to the country’s agrarian economy. The industry employs 1.26 million people on tea plantations and two million additional people indirectly. As such, the economic crisis has had an enormous impact on the lives of local residents. In Kerala where I have been conducting research, there have been eight cases of suicide and twelve deaths due to starvation on tea plantations since 2001. Along with utter poverty and famine, tea plantation workers have faced increasingly unhygienic work environments, shattered social life/community relations, and withdrawal of the welfare measures previously enjoyed. The crisis punctured the isolated environments of the plantations and precipitated neoliberal reforms that closed down production in many areas either partially or completely. While many families remained on the plantations, large numbers of workers who had lived there for more than five generations were now compelled to seek work outside. Some went with their families to either their ancestral villages or regional industrial townships such as Coimbatore and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. These plantation workers have now joined the ranks of the massive Dalit workforce powering India’s unorganised and informal sectors. In joining that pool of workers, Tamil Dalit labourers are exposed to aspects of a caste-ridden society from which they had previously been shielded. The situation of Saraswathi, a female retired worker in her early sixties, illustrates the dilemma and struggles of the workers who moved out the plantations.
— The hidden injuries of caste: south Indian tea workers and economic crisis by Jayaseelan Raj
#plantation tamils#kerala tea plantation#kerala#idukki#neocolonial india#neoliberalism#neoliberal india#plantation capitalism#plantation neoliberalism#tamil dalit workers#neoliberal casteism#jayseelan raj#tamil nadu#tamil labour migration
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Febuwhump day 1: Touch Starved
Boy can’t say something like “I don’t deserve to cry” and NOT expect a hug....
#my art#febuwhump 2023#febuwhumpday1#touch starved#trigun#trigun stampede#tristamp#episode 3#Vash the Stampede#Meryl Stryfe#hugs#platonic was intended but I don't mind the ship either if that's your cup of tea#this was also supposed to be FUNNY but I had feels instead when I got to coloring hhshdhkjfds#me; she needs to koala hug that poor boy#me;.....when was the last time he'd had a hug#he might stand stiff as a board for a solid minute then maybe melt a little#who wants to be close to a typhoon.....#Meryl Stryfe that's who#and her poor co-worker along for the ride LMAO#puts on my clown makeup- we'll see how much febuwhump i actually do#it just gave me some excellent fodder for what to draw or write tho so HHHSHKJDHLS#ok desert nights are so pretty thooooo
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Harry stole a microwave, a kitkat bar and some wooden hangers. It's hard out there for rich people too 😪
#harry styles#is a thief#arrest him!#the person who uploaded the video spilled some tea#she found out from a zoo worker#and harry lambert comented on the video#👀#that's a confirmation for me lol
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Miracle Worker (Karen Chasity x Duke Keane) stimboard with related themessss !! {Requested by @madsthebat}
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#stim#stimboard#stims#miracle worker#karen chasity#duke keane#music#coffee#records#vinyl#clouds#weather#tea#band aid#medical#church#christianity#I actually like how this turned out
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I realized that what I Really want rn is lighthearted domestic modern au
So im coming up with yet another au
t4t best friends & roommates vashwood who are both so in love with each other but both so dumb about it. Cue accidental toddler acquisition bc Vash's cousin (Domina)(sorry Domina) died & they're looking for a relative to foster said toddler. And Chronica and Nai are certainly not the nurturing types (general idea rn of the twins still being adopted but keeping in touch with their cousins, tho Chronica and Domina are cousins too in this) SO they ask Vash and well. He is nothing if not a bleeding heart. So he ends up saying yes.
Cue Vash not rly knowing how to take care of a toddler, but it's ok Wolfwood is here. He's a Professional. & them parenting together is the push they need to actually sort out their feelings....
(Putting the rest of this under a cut lol)
Not fully decided yet, but I was thinking mid to late 20s wolfwood and early 30s vash. Vash was a computer scientist that got so tired of the soul-killing salary job that he quit his job. And now he's a local oddball, almost a local celebrity, bc he does dog walking and other odd jobs in a very ostentatious way (based off of my own local legend of a dog walker who is known and beloved for this). He's also largely in local entertainment. A hobbyist roboticist who makes his own rigs, both for the over-the-top dog stroller he uses for small dogs that don't want to walk (something I saw from my own local legend dog walker) & also for any sort of festivals or w/e he's hired for. And if he needs the extra money, he takes on freelance programming work online, but overall he's just trying to have FUN.
And then there's Wolfwood, working some low wage job just trying to make his way through part-time school. Some sort of kids-focused career. Undecided still. But he's much shorter on money than Vash, aka why they started living together a few years back. Bc Wolfwood couldn't afford rent alone and Vash was more than happy to live with him. & tbh, Wolfwood is probably the reason Vash quit his corporate job in the first place. He Inspired him... to be true to himself!!!!
.......... I could make Wolfwood work at a bubble tea shop. Finally do a bubble tea shop au like I was wanting to ages ago to vent my woes. He's fucking miserable there. Vash really likes the free drinks Wolfwood takes home, though.
Hfkshfmsbfms honestly I'm tossing a lot of things into this au idea, but I just really want something lighthearted and domestic. And also put a kid in there bc I still really love vashwood dads.
#speculation nation#honestly i know the 'roommates vw foster kids together' idea has been done before. so im trying to make this into its own thing#i just dont wanna wait and write the leadup to Feelings. i want them to already Have feelings. which is a lot of why my other aus havent#been appealing to me right now.#so. local oddball quasi-celebrity vash and Eternally Suffering bubble tea shop worker & college student wolfwood#(very autobiographical of me there lmfao)#end up accidentally becoming dads because vash just Couldnt say no to that little face.#i'll have to look up what fostering process is actually like. but i do know theyd look to relatives first.#so if vash proves he can take care of her (he Does have a decent amount of money) theyd probably shove her off to him#bc there are way too many kids in the foster care system anyways... better to give her to someone like him#even if he is a bit Strange with his career. he makes it work tho#ok. tag for this. im not gonna lose it.#oddball au shit#officially dubbing it oddball au until i come up with an actual name#god i need to actually write down all my au ideas. i have so many. why am i like this
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mad take, but I can't with how the "Vivzie hate club" has two brain cells:
how dare this character be absolutely vulgar, vile, sexist, toxic, and a meanie. This show is terrible, and is teaching children terrible things. I don't care if this is hell, this is wrong and I hate.
but also
how dare this character of gluttony not look like a swol fly. This is not biblically accurate character design. How dare the deadly sins not behave in a cliche way that I have come to expect after watching 50 marvel movies. This free show is terrible and I hate.
#helluva boss#hazbin hotel#waiting patiently for the [I was a part of Vivzies team and everything was terrible here is my pdf of carefully catered content] bomb#maybe this was so unexpected the disgruntled worker didn't have the mad tea edited up in a neat little framed package#seriously ken draws was an FULL ADULT and a manipulator dude was toxic as all hell#i hope no one else got tangled up with them especially minors cause that person was toxic#a 5 HOUR PHONE CHAT OVER A BASIC LEGAL DOCUMENT#FOR IPS#30 AND COULDNT INTERPRET A LEGAL DOCUMENT#A SHORT TERM RUNDAMENTARY LEGAL DOCUMENT FOR IPS#I did read the pdf ken provided and.... they come across as an absolute nightmare to work with
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me to a coworker: oh hey has our molly arrived yet? (meaning: our weekly shipment of Molybdenum-99, the parent isotope of Technetium-99m, the most common radioisotope used in nuclear med)
patient waiting for a scan who happened to overhear: your what
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khemtid: *pursues a relationship with the #1 host knowing full well that there's a rule against it bc of the nature of a host's job and the jealousy that it may lead to and deciding it's worth it for wela*
also khemtid: *gets mad at wela for being good at his job*
also khemtid, when wela is being the #1 host:
#i HATE the trope of ppl getting mad at their flirty/previously promiscuous/sex worker love interests just bc they're jealous/insecure#like this is wela's JOB and khemtid knew that so he can't be mad plus he's essentially slutshaming wela for it!!#i get that he's jealous but he did not have to insult and treat wela like that#tea talks#deep night
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Being pretend afraid from experiencing an earthquake for the first time so my job will be more lax with me not working
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Kerala has been widely lauded for having achieved human development goals comparable to those of economically advanced countries despite being economically poor. Its allegedly egalitarian economic model was highlighted as an alternative to neoliberal, free market policies. However, the ‘pro-poor’ policies largely passed over the plantations. Plantation workers have not benefited from the land reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, and thus the majority have remained poor, landless labourers working within the exploitative plantation system. Moreover, the women plantation workers face multiple levels of discrimination because they are, at the same time, Tamil, Dalit, and female. Remarkably, though, the Pembillai Orumai challenged the negative caste prejudice and ethnic stereotyping of the plantation Tamils. The ethnic stereotyping of lower class Dalit Tamils is epitomised by the slur ‘pandi’, which symbolises the inferior in the oppositions of modern/non-modern, and resourceful/unresourceful. The portrayal of the Tamil plantation women as unresourceful was evident in the racist colonial conception of Tamil plantation workers as hard working but unintelligent. Echoes of this imagery were everywhere during the Pembillai Orumai strike. Many commentators, including trade union leaders, framed the strike as an anarchist act that could not be considered a proper form of resistance. They also repeatedly claimed that ‘invisible forces’ instigated the strike, an accusation the leaders of Pembillai Orumai strongly denied. These accusations were meant to rob the underclass—lower caste—Tamil speaking women of their due credit by suggesting they were incapable of organising themselves. Yet it was this very community who designed and implemented a model of resistance that interrogated the contradictions of the widely celebrated Kerala development model and its egalitarian claims. And as all actions, this one had its own momentum. It also became an act of rebellion that challenged the social relations responsible for their alienated condition, including the ethnic stereotypes that characterised them as inferior. It was an attempt to reclaim human personality in a Dalit liberation tradition, not only for them but also for their men and their dead indentured ancestors.
— The women strike back: the protest of Pembillai Orumai tea workers by Jayaseelan Raj
#plantation tamils#kerala#neoliberal india#neocolonial india#pembillai orumai#tamil dalit workers#tamil indentured history#jayaseelan raj#neoliberalism#neoliberal casteism#kerala tea plantation#plantation neoliberalism
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Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A break room. A break room with tea and tea makes me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A break room. A break room with tea-
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arakawa wouldve wanted this for me
#snap chats#thats roast duck soup FOR YOUR INFORMATION 🗣#and pork dumplings and crab rangoon and some might say crab rangoon aint traditional chinese but they can Traditionally suck me#i just hear him in my dome talkin to ichi bout restaurant workers goin home to ring in the new year </3 uhh OOPS BYE#i havent had duck or rangoon in so long… my beloveds…#anyways im going to a whole event after this. there gon be LION DANCING. and kpop i think 👁❓👁#ok im eating BYE i dont know why they gave me two green teas but they taste like peanut butter and im suffering
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If you want creatives to have time and energy to finish their works (Art, Writing, Music, Etc), by getting more into real life activism related to human rights, workers rights & healthcare, that will be the ultimate way to help support your favorite creatives without the need of money.
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There's this donut place in the skyway and twice a week they have new specialty donut flavors. This one is matcha with strawberry popping bubbles (they were already popped >:[) it was the last one...we were waylaid because my partner stopped to listen to this guy's spiel about nature.org which was essentially...hey check out nature.org! Ok thanks. But because we stopped we got to see the second to last matcha donut get sold right from under us. I still let Kona have a bite of this one though. So that she doesn't bring down the Nature Conservancy in her rage
#the green tea buttercream...im still thinking of it#it wasn't sweet at all and almost tasted like if you over beat heavy cream and it starts turning into butter#I'm low-key obsessed I want to know the recipe. a buttercream that's not sweet?? and doesn't taste like butter??#the skyway is amazing btw it makes me want to be an office worker so I could go there on my breaks
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While I'm on the topic of Breq not having unpacked all her toxic Radch stuff, she's disturbed by Raughd forcing herself on her family's indentured laborers, but she makes a comment suggesting she thinks it's normal and fine for Seivarden to order one of her subordinates to have sex with her if she's feeling stressed out. Radchaai society is built on people with less power sleeping with more powerful patrons in exchange for a leg up, so I wonder if Raughd raping people bothers her, or if she's just bothered by Raughd not offering anything to her victims afterward.
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