After much waffling on the matter, it would be that Tsai Ing-Wen has taken a hard line against Taiwanese labor with planned changes to labor policy which Tsai has ordered to be forced through the Legislative Yuan. This has provoked outrage from labor groups...
A rally of reportedly over 100,000 took to the streets of Taipei yesterday in order to protest against the Tsai administration's planned pension reform plans...
For future developments in Taiwanese labor, looking at past historical examples of successful strikes in other contexts as the 1934 Teamsters strike in America may be useful...
A hunger strike by workers outside the Legislative Yuan came to an end today after 52 hours. Workers were demonstrating against planned cuts in public holidays...
New Bloom editors Parson Young and Brian Hioe translated the manifesto of currently hunger striking workers from the Worker's Struggle collective of labor unions, who are on hunger strike outside of the Legislative Yuan...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Catta Chou of Youth Labor Union 95 regarding the upcoming Taiwan International Labor Film Festival by e-mail. The Taiwan International Labor Film Festival will be held from August 26th to September 4th in Taipei...
Going forward after the historic China Airlines strike, the next issue of New Bloom will look at the relation of youth activism and labor in Taiwan / 在歷史性的華航罷工之後,破土這個月的主題將會探討台灣青年的社會運動與勞工之間的關係...