The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was recently asked about possible plans to source workers from Eswatini. Eswatini is Taiwan’s only diplomatic ally in Africa...
At the start of May, during Labor Day weekend, the right-wing Taiwan Solidarity Party (TSP, formerly known as the Taiwan Solidarity Union) held two rallies in Taipei to protest against migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia. The first rally, held in the morning before the Labor Day march, featured a man tabling with an SS insignia on his arm, and a student was arrested for throwing a water balloon at TSP chairwoman Chou, Ni-An (周倪安). The second rally, held the next day, which the TSP, working with the International Association of Family and Employers with Disabilities (IAFED, also known as Taiwan Employers Association), dubbed “employer’s day,” followed up with the physical assault of a counter protester by a man donning a TSP vest...
Racism against the prospect of introducing Indian migrant workers has again taken place in Taiwan. The prospect of Taiwan allowing India to become the fifth major country to provide blue-collar migrant work dates to 2023, when the Lai administration began negotiating with the Indian government to allow migrant workers...
Migrant workers and labor advocates protested Sunday outside the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) in Taipei, accusing the Philippine government’s representatives of siding with management in an ongoing labor dispute at Taiwanese medical device manufacturer Taidoc Technology Corporation...
Migrant workers at major Taiwanese medical device manufacturer Taidoc marked the Lunar New Year with a series of protests, including a strike declaration on Lunar New Year’s Eve and a post-holiday mobilization—escalating a labor dispute that has drawn national political attention....
Priminent Taiwanese medtech company Taidoc Technology Corporation has fired all leaders of its company-based union, all of whom are Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan. Such termination marks a major escalation in what workers describe as weeks of union crackdowns...
The Highway Bureau is reportedly considering recruiting international students and students of ethnic Han descent to fill positions as bus drivers, provided they speak intermediate-level Chinese. This continues the pattern of Taiwan opening up migrant worker categories for the so-called “3D”–“dirty, dangerous, and demeaning”–jobs that Taiwanese no longer want to take up themselves...
The Ministry of Labor has rolled out new regulations for internships in the hospitality industry. The regulations are framed as strengthening the labor rights for students, as well as ensuring that internships do not become de facto forms of employment...
