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Day: 10 June 2005

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Tea workers; one euro a day!

June 10, 2005 Laurence Coates

On 12 May the Socialist Plantation Workers’ Union (SPWU) opened new offices in the town of Nuwara Eliya, high up in the Sri Lankan ‘hill country’.

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Sri Lanka

Tea workers: one euro a day!

June 10, 2005 A report from Laurence Coates who recently visited Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka

On 12 May the Socialist Plantation Workers’ Union (SPWU) opened new offices in the town of Nuwara Eliya, high up in the Sri Lankan ‘hill country’.

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