The Taiwan Railways Union went on a 100-hour hunger strike that began at Taipei Main Station over the last weekend. This was in protest of a ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court, which found workers as having acted in bad faith through a labor protest that took the form of 337 union members taking leave over the Lunar New Year from January 27 to January 30, 2017, and only informing the company of their planned leave on January 23rd. The ruling also decided that the Taiwan Railways Administration had not engaged in unfair labor practices and was not in the wrong in marking workers who took leave as absent without authorization...
Chinese state-run media has sought to frame DPP legislator Puma Shen as under investigation by government authorities. This proves unusual, seeing as China does not control Taiwan, and there would be little way for China to enforce any judicial rulings against Shen...
Filipino migrant workers at the TaiDoc Technology Corporation are demonstrating against union-busting and infringements of the basic rights of migrant workers at the company. TaiDoc is a major medical parts manufacturer based in New Taipei, while migrant workers are organized through the TaiDoc Technology Labor Union ...
Newly elected KMT chair Cheng Li-wun continues to make headlines with controversial headlines and actions. It has been a mere ten days since Cheng took office as KMT chair, having won as a dark horse candidate. And yet Cheng continues to be embroiled in scandals...
It proves notable that, according to the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), the number of Taiwanese detained by China has tripled this year. This follows up on previous statements by the MAC that nine Taiwanese go missing in China each month. Although some Taiwanese may have simply befallen unfortunate accidents and gone missing, such as while hiking, it is believed that these disappearances are primarily individuals held on political causes...
Comments by newly elected KMT party chair Cheng Li-wun have led to outrage, in an unusual case of the KMT foraying into the matter of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, Cheng defended Russian President Vladimir Putin as a democratically elected leader, rather than a dictator. Cheng claimed that Russia had been a democracy for many years after the transition away from the Soviet Union...
Thousands of strangers island-wide worked together with remarkable efficiency so that the Great Recall Movement would succeed. Despite its failure to recall any of the targeted politicians from office, the Great Recall Movement holds lessons for how to rapidly mobilize civil society in response to impending threats to Taiwan’s democracy...
Five Taiwanese companies have been singled out by Chinese state-run media with allegations that they work together with the military in conducting psychological warfare operations targeting China. This proves a new development, when it comes to the fact that the Chinese government has, in recent times, continuously lashed out at Taiwan with the claim that Taiwan conducts psychological warfare against it. The five companies–EZTrust, LargitData, DiTV, DigiMiracle, and Master Concept–are tech companies that have taken tenders for app and digital tool development from the Chinese government...
