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Strike: Tea firms threaten to mechanise operations

A tea picker at work

Tea firms in Nandi have insisted that they will be forced to acquire tea plucking machines if no solution is found to the ongoing workers’ strike.

The strike by tea workers has seen thousands of kilogrammes of green tea leaves go unpicked as the labourers clamour for pay increase. Employment and Labour Relations Court recently issued a directive to the tea companies to increase the employees' basic pay by 30 per cent over a period of two years.

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