There has been increased criticism of the make-up holiday system in Taiwan after a series of six-day works in the last two months. Current provisions specify that when a public holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, the government moves the date of the holiday to create a long weekend, but then a Saturday in another week becomes a work day...
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...
