Nurses demonstrated in front of the legislature earlier this month. In particular, this was to call attention to the failure of the government to pass laws mandating a three-shift system for nurses...
Kaohsiung city council assistants have announced plans to set up a new union. In particular, city council assistants have drawn attention to the fact that salaries for city councilor assistants have remained the same for 23 years...
The story of Southern Riot begins shortly before the migrant worker rally in front of the Taiwanese labor ministry in Taipei on January 16, 2022. Support groups helped to organize this rally for demands such as the right of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan to freely change their employer...
Recent labor actions in Taiwan touch on a number of issues, ranging from layoffs to gender equality. The Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union demonstrated at the start of August in front of the Control Yuan, calling for an end to gendered uniform policy for female flight attendants. In particular, female flight attendants in Taiwan are required to wear pencil skirts, stockings, and high heels on the job, while pants and gender-neutral uniforms are not allowed...
A recent expose in the New York Times on tech multimillionaire Roy Singham, who funds various tankie media outlets, organizations, and institutions such as the Tricontinental Institute, Code Pink, and the People’s Forum in New York City, has led to a petition on the Tricontinental Institute and Code Pink’s websites lashing out against the “new McCarthyism.” This petition was signed by anyone from David Harvey to Radhika Desai, Chris Hedges, and luminaries of the Brooklyn left such as Doug Henwood and The Nation president Bhaskar Sunkara...
It surprised few when the Taiwanese government turned down a petition requesting a four-day workweek, with three-day weekends. The Taiwanese government is obligated to formally respond to petitions that reach a certain number of signatures on the National Development Council’s Public Policy Online Participation Platform...
The death of a twenty-year-old Vietnamese intern in a factory in New Taipei in May should raise questions, particularly in light of the pattern in past years of students from mostly Southeast Asian and African countries being forced to work in factories as part of what are billed as “work study” programs or “internships"...
Migrant worker groups criticized the actions of the Shulin police in a press conference earlier this week. Namely, police entered the premises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Shulin, New Taipei in search of migrant workers they suspected to be members of a fraud ring. The members of the fraud ring were thought to be in the process of handing off money by police. The incident took place on May 28th...
Indonesian migrants in Taiwan are exploited as cheap labor and racially marginalized. To support each other, they form subcultures, for example around the metalcore band Jubah Hitam...
Police brutality become discussed in Taiwan after an incident involving police beating a man causing a disturbance in a 7/11. The 7/11 was located in Zhongli, Taoyuan...