The need for labor protections for couriers and deliverers in Taiwan has become widely discussed in the past week. Namely, a large public reaction has ensued after two deaths of deliverers in traffic accidents and the death of a pedestrian struck by a deliverer...
A working group formed under the auspices of the Fisheries Agency has been meeting to discuss the labor rights of migrant workers employed aboard Taiwan’s distant water fleet...
On September 20th, the training ship Yu Shiun No. 2 departed Ch’ien-chen Harbor in Kaohsiung, carrying an eclectic crew of passengers, including officials with the Fisheries Agency, employees of the Overseas Fisheries Development Council of the Republic of China, and members of the Serve the People Association, the Environmental Justice Foundation, and the Yilan Migrant Fishermen Union ...
Taiwan’s Ministry of Labor hosted a forum on October 2nd to consider allowing labor brokers to charge migrant workers additional fees after completing their first three-year employment contract...
A section of the Nanfang’ao Bridge in Yilan County collapsed around 9:30 on Tuesday morning, injuring over twenty people and killing six migrant fishermen. Responses to the bridge collapse should call attention to the dehumanizing conditions faced by migrant workers and the situation faced by migrant workers in which situation wherein migrant fishermen are bound to their worksites even when not being paid...
A number of recent incidents over the past few months point to the need for stronger protections for migrant workers in Taiwan. The first incident involves the death of a migrant worker after a hydrofluoric acid spill in a factory, the second incident involves the death of a migrant worker in a hospital in Nantou under mysterious circumstances, and the third incident involves the sentencing of a police officer involved in the shooting death of a migrant worker in 2017...
In the aftermath of the historic EVA flight attendants’ strike, early indications are that EVA management does not intend to adhere to the terms of the collective bargaining agreement signed with flight attendants at the end of the strike...
Anger has broken out from migrant worker groups after an incident in Taichung involving the eviction of forty migrant workers from the ASEAN Square by Taichung police. The incident took place at night on July 14th and was filmed by a bystander on a cell phone...
The EVA Air flight attendants’ strike came to an end yesterday, with an agreement signed between union representatives from the Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union and EVA management. Flight attendants will resume work at 12 AM on July 10th...
EVA Air flight attendants currently on strike held a demonstration on Ketagalan Boulevard tonight. The demonstration, which began at 7 PM and ended at around 10:00 PM, had likely in the vicinity of four hundred to five hundred individuals...
