The meeting of the tea plantation owners with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina started around 4:15pm on Saturday.
The 13-member delegation of tea garden owners is present in the meeting which is set to discuss the demand of tea garden workers to raise daily wages.
The workers of the country’s 167 tea plantations, including 92 in Moulvibazar, continued their indefinite strike for the 17th day on Friday demanding that they are paid Tk300-a-day wages instead of the current Tk120.
The protesting workers said they will not withdraw their strike they launched on August 9 until the prime minister announces Tk300 daily pay for them.
However, the district administration and police held meetings with Panchayet committees of the plantations in their continued bid to convince the workers to return to work.
The movement started on August 9, when workers from 241 tea gardens of the country abstained from work for two hours, demanding Tk300 as daily wages. As their demand was not met, they decided to go on a full-scale strike from August 13.
