Women tea workers in Munnar go on relay fast

Women tea plantation workers in the high range of Munnar in Kerala's Idukki district, who are demanding wage hike, intensified their stir by sitting on a relay 'hunger strike'.
The women workers will be observing the relay fast in support of their demand to hike wages to Rs 500 per day from Rs 232 at present.
Yesterday, some trade union activists had pelted stones at them after being unhappy over their decision to not join an united stir.
Meanwhile, the strike by plantation workers in other parts of the state, demanding wage hike, intensified today as the agitation entered the fourth day.

Plantation workers in Pathanamthitta burnt an effigy of labour minister Shibu Babu John and blocked the main arterial roads.
At least three lakh workers of various plantations are on strike for better wages.
The plantation managements have made it clear that it would be unviable for them to raise the wages to Rs 500 per day.