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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5095)	7/12/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) of 12475

India tea workers down tools by Subir Bhaumik in Calcutta -BBC More than 250,000 tea plantation workers have gone on strike in the Indian state of West Bengal. The strike has led to work stoppages in nearly 350 estates in the state's tea producing areas such as Darjeeling, Dooars and Terai region on the foothills of the Himalayas. Several rounds of negotiations between the tea plantation owners and the unions in West Bengal have failed to provide a solution so far. Call for better conditions While the unions want at least three workers employed per hectare in every tea estate in West Bengal, the plantation owners say they can only increase the level of employment marginally - by a few hundred workers as a whole. The workers are demanding better drinking water facilities and living quarters, more schools and hospitals as well. The plantation owners say that the facilities in West Bengal's tea-producing areas are much better than adjoining rural areas of the state. Warning over production The Indian Tea Association, or the ITA, says that if the strike stretches on beyond a week it will severely affect production. And ITA spokesman said that output had already been affected due to drought early in the tea season this summer. They said that output had just started to pick up with the rains last month - amidst great interest from buyers in western countries, including the UK. The ITA spokesman said that the association had asked West Bengal's left-wing coalition government to intervene and prevail upon the unions to call off the strike. But the government has yet to respond formally. West Bengal's Darjeeling region produces some of the world's best teas, most of which are exported.

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