EVA flight attendants from the Taoyuan Flight Attendants' Union began a strike at 4 PM on Thursday. 2,949 of EVA Air’ 4,600 or so flight attendants are striking. Workers also held a sit-in outside EVA headquarters, with over one thousand participating...
The struggle of Vietnamese migrant workers at the Meidi Shipin Limited Corporation continues, with two demonstrations taking place on May 20th and May 21st. The two demonstrations were against the firing of three Meidi factory workers who had been key organizers in a previous strike earlier in May...
The detention of Chinese labor activist Wei Zhili and two other members of the Chinese independent news publication iLabour has led to calls for the release of what have been referred to as the “iLabour Three”. iLabour specialized in reporting on migrant workers’ issues, as well as labor consultancy...
A campaign between Chinese tech workers and their American counterparts, as coordinated through an online campaign based on GitHub, has proved an unusual example of workers in the same industry organizing internationally...
A rare strike action by migrant workers took place on May 3rd of this month. Even more unusual was the fact that the strike was not only successful but was successful after only just one day...
International Workers' Day saw thousands of workers take to the streets of Taipei today, with the demonstration beginning at noon today on Ketagalan Boulevard and ending around 4 PM. The demonstration involved throwing papers with a list of demands at the Legislative Yuan, firing bottle rockets at the Presidential Office, and a skit involving presidential contenders and the sea goddess Mazu...
A demonstration by migrant workers took place outside of the Ministry of Labor this afternoon. Migrant workers demonstrated today because April 28th is the last Sunday before May 1st, which is International Workers’ Day, and which is commemorated with a labor protest every year in Taiwan. However, unless May 1st falls on Sunday—which is usually the only day off that migrant workers have off every week, if they have one at all—most migrant workers are unable to demonstrate that day...
Southeast Asian migrant workers, primarily women from the Philippines and Indonesia, rallied against sexual harassment, sexual assault, and racism in Taipei Main Station last weekend...
The death of three Vietnamese migrant workers in a warehouse fire in early February should remind of the unsafe working conditions which continue to face migrant workers in Taiwan...
A weeklong strike by China Airlines pilots over the Lunar New Year holiday came to an end yesterday, after negotiations on Thursday between China Airlines management and the Taoyuan Pilot’s Union...