End Colonial Era Humiliation: Assam Tea Workers Prepare for A Strike Demanding Fixation of Minimum Wages
It is 76 years of India’s Independence, yet the racist profit seeking exploitation of Tea workers continues unabated. The tea estates of North Bengal and Assam carry the colonial legacy of inhuman exploitation of the tribes who were brought from Jharkhand and adjacent areas in the early nineteenth century by the colonial rulers. Since then, the mechanism for earning super profit by the owners of tea estates is kept intact What else could explain the fact that till now the governments refuse to fix minimum wages for tea workers?