Protest over tea wages

Workers of Makrapara tea estate in Alipurduar district skipped work on Wednesday and worked for only an hour on Thursday as protest against the delay on the part of the management to clear their wages.

Since September, workers of the garden — 441 in all — did not get wages.

On Thursday, workers protested under the banner of Cha Bagan Trinamul Congress Mazdoor Union in the presence of Mannalal Jain, union vice-president. The garden’s manager gave in writing to Jain that September wages would be credited to workers’ bank accounts by afternoon and October’s by December 19.