Notoriously underpaid – even in India $2 is nowhere near enough to live reasonably comfortably – tea pickers are now organizing themselves to push for higher wages. While strikes have so far only resulted in modest increases, there is increased awareness of the pickers’ plight:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/08/f-india-tea-pickers-profile.html
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