Group of Talawakele estate workers stage strike

Aug 23, 2016

It is reported that estate workers at the Eastern section of Talawakele Holyrood estate have resorted to strike action.The group consists of around 300 estate workers who had struck work and had organized a clamour on the 22nd instant.

The cause for the strike had been as the administrators of the estate had failed to offer sufficient work for them ,for supplying inferior quality medicine for protection against leeches and for some other reasons as well..

The estate workers who had struck work had blamed the administrators that as a result of inferior medicine the attacks from leeches have caused harm to their legs and as a result the exercise of plucking tea leaves has hindered.

It is reported that the workers who struck work had demonstrated in front of the tea factory. Our reporter had added that a discussion between the management and the workers has been scheduled this evening. The strikers had pledged that if sufficient solutions are not offered they will continue the strike.