Abstract

 'Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS) is the largest trade union organizing labourers in tea gardens of the Assam Valley in north-east india. The union is affiliated with the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC).[3] As of the early 2000s, ACMS claimed a membership of 1.1 million (another figure, presented in 2009, put the total membership at 325,000) The organisational network of ACMS includes 850 company tea gardens. The Union of the Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha has been established on a democratic set up comprising of three Tires:- Central Level, Branch Level, and Primary Committee at plantation Level. It is the applied principles of INTUC to establish an order in society which is free from hindrances in the way of an all round development in its individual members which encourages the growth of human personality and education to all its aspects and goes to the utmost limit in progressively eliminating social, political and economic exploitation and inequality. Ever since its inception the ACMS has been working successfully to its credit as the only one actively strong and effective union of the Tea Plantation Workers recognized by the Tea Industry as well as the State Administration. The ACMS has an experienced staff of more than three hundred employees who keep regular contact with the primary units of the plantations and the workers on all matters of their interest, common good and welfare.An attepts have been made to know the existing working condition of tea garden workers in the study area and satisfaction level of tea garden workers towards their working conditionsIn the tea gardens.

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