Why politicians, union leaders fear the fiery female workers of Munnar plantations

October 05, 2015 11:09

That which is happening in the plantations in Munnar for the past few weeks should make politicians and trade union leaders sit up and think.

Hitherto, workers were at the mercy of trade unions to redress their grievances with the management. Slowly, they realised that the trade union leaders were actually conniving with the management to deny them their rightful entitlements and were pocketing money and other benefits from the management.

Pushed to the wall, the female workers of the plantations have now taken the plunge to lead the agitation by themselves, keeping union leaders and politicians at bay.

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