{"id":5317,"date":"2019-01-27T19:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2019-01-27T19:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:44:31","slug":"tea-estate-workers-strike-again-demanding-rs-1000-daily-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tea-estate-workers-strike-again-demanding-rs-1000-daily-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea estate workers strike again demanding Rs. 1000 daily wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Estate workers of Hatton and Bogawanthalawa tea estates have again launched a strike today (27) demanding the plantation companies to increase their basic daily wage up to Rs. 1000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A group of estate workers is engaged in a protest from this morning blocking the bridge on Hatton-Bogawanthalawa main road in Bogawanthalawa town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Due to the blocking of main roads, no vehicles traveling to Bogawanthalawa from Hatton can enter the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The estate workers have commenced the agitation to protest the agreement reached by the Estate Employer&#8217;s federation and the estate workers&#8217; union with the intervention of the government to raise the basic daily wage up to Rs. 700.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The workers say the Rs. 700 daily wage is not enough and also the Rs. 140 incentive allowance given earlier is not included in the new agreement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The workers say the politicians promised to get their wages raised up to Rs. 1000 per day and they have been cheated with basic wage of Rs. 700.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The protesting plantation workers are asking the workers&#8217; unions not to sign the agreement due to be signed by the two sides over the daily wage increase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estate workers of Hatton and Bogawanthalawa tea estates have again launched a strike today&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}