In India’s prized Darjeeling tea region, tea pickers continue their strike action that they started in June. Trade unions have allied with the separatist Gorkha People’s Liberation Front and are calling for the minimum wage to apply.
For more than 80 days leaves from the so-called ‘Champagne of tea’, Darjeeling plants have not been harvested and the plantations have halted production. Since the start of June pickers of this precious beverage have been on strike signaling an end to production. “All the plantations are crippled,” stated Kaushik Bhattacharjee from the Darjeeling tea management association that promotes the industry, before continuing, “The season is over and even if the conflict stops, there won’t be any harve
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