a. Explain how a tea workers’ union would attempt to counteract the plantation’s wage offer in a bilateral monopoly.
b. Explain how the wage rate would be determined if the market were a bilateral monopoly.

Sri Lanka’s workers want a daily wage rate of 1,000 rupees. In January, trade unions and tea plantations negotiated an increase in the wage rate by 40 percent to 700 rupees a day. Academics say that even 1,000 rupees a day is less than what workers need to live.