#tea workers

[dailyanarchistposts]

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.

[thozhar]

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

[breezy-cheezy]

Febuwhump day 1: Touch Starved

Boy can’t say something like “I don’t deserve to cry” and NOT expect a hug....

[ificouldflyhome369]

Harry stole a microwave, a kitkat bar and some wooden hangers. It's hard out there for rich people too 😪

[hall-of-fandom-stimboards]

Miracle Worker (Karen Chasity x Duke Keane) stimboard with related themessss !! {Requested by @madsthebat}

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[aalt-ctrl-del]

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.

[radioactiveradley]

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

[ahxiang]

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:

[sleepyteamage]

Being pretend afraid from experiencing an earthquake for the first time so my job will be more lax with me not working

[miscellaneoussmp]

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-

[todayisafridaynight]

arakawa wouldve wanted this for me

[thozhar]

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

[thediktatortot]

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.

[godsgifttogrinds]

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

[clonerightsagenda]

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.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

i need you to know you’re wrong england can’t make fun of the usa, u said look at us but y’all are worse boston tea party patriotism bald eagle usa 5eva baby (just kidding bro (i hate america (england worse tho (lol))))

so quick question for y'all over the pond, on average what % of your yearly earnings go towards the Bulletproof Vest Budget?