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|name = All West Bengal Tea Garden Labourers Union
|location_country= [[India]]
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|founded = 1989
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|headquarters = Hatighisa, [[West Bengal]]
|key_people = [[Kanu Sanyal]], working president
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The '''All West Bengal Tea Garden Labourers Union''' (abbreviated '''AWBTGLU''') is a [[trade union]] of tea plantation workers in northern [[West Bengal]], [[India]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040318004250/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040117/asp/siliguri/story_2794724.asp ]</ref> It was founded in 1989.<ref name="ec">{{cite web|author=13 March, 2021, 03:11 AM IST |url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2002-09-30/news/27342191_1_kanu-sanyal-tea-workers-anti-labour |title=Business News Today: Read Latest Business news, India Business News Live, Share Market & Economy News | The Economic Times |publisher=Articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com |date= |accessdate=2021-03-12}}</ref> Politically, the union is aligned with the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Kanu Sanyal)|Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]].<ref name="ntui"/> The veteran [[Naxalite]] leader [[Kanu Sanyal]] (founder of the original [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)|CPI (ML)]] in 1969, leader of the [[Communist Organisation of India (Marxist-Leninist)]] until its merger into the refounded CPI (ML) in 2003) served as the working president of AWBTGLU prior to his death in 2010.<ref name="ec"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030822191504/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030712/asp/siliguri/story_2155917.asp ]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102141541/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030219/asp/siliguri/story_1685369.asp ]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cpiml.in/Jan%252008/080117.doc |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930081613/http://cpiml.in/Jan%2008/080117.doc |archive-date=30 September 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120916205753/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-08-07/kolkata/27186943_1_kanu-sanyal-new-party-naxalite-groups]</ref><ref name="ks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120916205821/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-24/india/28118027_1_kanu-sanyal-naxalites-charu-mazumdar]</ref> The union was based in Sanyal's home village Hatighisa, near [[Naxalbari]].<ref name="ks"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cpiml.in/Periodicals/Conf%20Docs%20Political%20Orgtanizational%20Report.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927104111/http://www.cpiml.in/Periodicals/Conf%20Docs%20Political%20Orgtanizational%20Report.html |archive-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Under Sanyal's leadership, the union fiercely criticized the plantation labour policies of the then [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] government of West Bengal.<ref name="ec"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102141547/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030916/asp/siliguri/story_2369195.asp ]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120916205704/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2003-04-15/kolkata/27268012_1_tea-gardens-land-lease-indian-tea-planters-association]</ref> In 2002, Sanyal argued that lock-outs at north Bengal tea plantations had caused the death through hunger and diseases of 600 labourers. He charged the state government with indifference to the plight of tea labourers, labelling it a 'silent spectator'.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120916205728/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-12-26/kolkata/27317001_1_tea-garden-tea-workers-kanu-sanyal]</ref>

Following Sanyal's death, leaders of AWBTGLU include Ram Ganesh and Pradip Debnath.<ref name="ntui">{{cite web |url=http://ntui.org.in/media/item/campaign-for-a-just-wage-for-tea-plantation-workers-launched/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318002908/http://ntui.org.in/media/item/campaign-for-a-just-wage-for-tea-plantation-workers-launched/ |archive-date=18 March 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In 2011 AWBTGLU joined the Pashchim Banga Cha Sramik Karmachari Union, the Darjeeling Terai Dooars Chia Kaman Union and the Terai Sangrami Cha Sramik Union to launch a joint campaign, for implementation of a daily minimum wage of {{Indian Rupee}}245 for labourers at tea plantations (in order to comply with the norms of the 15th [[International Labour Conference]] and subsequent orders of the [[Supreme Court of India]]). Moreover, the four union resolved to campaign for the implementation of the Plantation Labour Act, and in case of sick and closed plantations demand the implementation of the 2010 Supreme Court directive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpiml.org/liberation/year_2011/april_11/updates.html |title=Women Celebrating IWD Centenary Arrested in UP |publisher=Cpiml.org |date= |accessdate=2021-03-12}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Trade unions in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Indian agriculture and forestry trade unions]]
[[Category:1989 establishments in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Trade unions established in 1989]]
[[Category:Tea industry in West Bengal]]

All West Bengal Tea Garden Labourers Union - Revision history

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