ThisisBigBrother.com - UK TV Forums - India :PG Tips, Liptons Tea workers poo on the Plantations

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Originally Posted by arista (Post 8375347)

On the India plantations of Our Tea and USA Tea.
they have workers homes but with no working bogs
so they poo in the Tea Plantations.
A manager grabbed the camera and told him
to get off Private Property.
He then agreed to talk

Even Harrods get there Tea
there.
And Yorkshire Tea supply.

Feck Me India
The Rich Tea Owners and there low paid workers with no working bog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34173532
a 4mins Edit video from the 25mins report just on BBCNewsHD

I am Glad I Drink Pure Kenya Tea

BBCNewsHD

Defecate on your Cuppa
this is a outrage
this is a Sept Report
it should be in our Parliament
and on QT.
Not Hidden away at 2:30AM on Boxing Day in the morning
and it should be on Front Page News.

Its being hidden by BBC News
who made the 20mins Docu
Shocking

You're only actually bothered about how this might affect you?

It's hardly something new.
If they didn't crap in tea bushes you'd be perfectly happy to buy their products and openly support all of this abuse and exploitation?

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Several of Britain's biggest tea brands, including PG Tips, Tetleys and Twinings, have said they will work to improve the tea estates they buy from in India after a BBC investigation found dangerous and degrading living and working conditions.

Living and working conditions are so bad, and wages so low, that tea workers and their families are left malnourished and vulnerable to fatal illnesses.
There was also a disregard for health and safety, with workers spraying chemicals without protection, and on some estates, child labour being used.

Toilets overflowing
Plantation owners in India are obliged by law to provide and maintain "adequate" houses, and sanitary toilets for workers.
Yet homes on the tea estates were in terrible disrepair, with leaking roofs and damp and cracked walls. Many toilets are blocked or broken.

Workers said their homes were not repaired despite repeated requests to management, often over many years.

The drains are open and unlined and many clogged with effluent. In some cases, cesspits are overflowing into the living areas of people's homes.
Many homes have no electricity, and on one estate workers had to drink rainwater piped from a stream.

The estate has just 464 toilets to serve 740 homes.

Malnutrition
Many Indians live in dismal housing, but Indian law says decent housing and sanitation are part of a tea worker's pay.
This is the justification plantation owners give for the extremely low wages in the industry. Tea workers in Assam earn 115 rupees a day, just over £1 ($1.50) , significantly below the minimum wage (177 rupees in Assam).
This combination of appalling conditions and low pay on tea plantations can be deadly.
Studies have confirmed levels of malnutrition on tea estates are very high, even by India's woeful standards.

Nine out of 10 patients from tea plantations are malnourished, according to the medical director of Assam Medical College, one of the main general hospitals serving the tea region.

As a result, Prof Das says, tea workers' children - and their parents - are significantly more likely to die of their illnesses than other patients at the hospital.

Child labour
And the BBC found other abuses.
One girl who said she was 14, was picking tea at the prestigious Doomur Dullung estate. She said she had been working full time for two months.

Doomur Dullung is owned by one of the oldest tea companies in the world, Assam Company, and supplies Twinings, Yorkshire Tea, Harrods and Fortnum and Mason.
Two other children said they had been employed full time on estates owned by Assam Company since they were in their early teens.
The UN rules on child labour say no child under 15 should work full time