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Tea workers stage strike

26 October 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

UNB, Sylhet

Dhaldhali Tea Garden workers here abstained from work for two consecutive days demanding payment of their wages. Hundreds of workers took out a procession and held a rally in the town on Sunday. Speakers alleged that they had received half of their wages as what they said several officials including the manager misappropriate the rest amount. They sought intervention of the national tea company chairman and chief whip Abdus Shahid for mitigating their sufferings. They were still abstaining from work till filing of the report yesterday noon.