Tea pickers in Bangladesh have gone on permanent strike, demanding a pay rise. They are among the lowest paid workers, earning slightly more than $1 per day. Their union wants a 150 percent pay rise. It has rejected the government’s latest offer of a 25 cents per day wage rise. Al Jazeera’s @Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Srimongal, Bangladesh.
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