Clashes highlight protest against labor law amendment

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/08
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan 

Taipei, Jan. 8 (CNA) Taiwanese labor groups staged a rally outside the Legislative Yuan Monday in an attempt to thwart the passage of an amendment to the Labor Standards Act that they described as “the worst in history.”

Clashes broke out between protesters and the police when the groups were trying to set up a canopy for protesters to take shelter from rain, only to see a truck carrying the equipment stopped by the police.

Hundreds of people led by the “May 1 Action Coalition” — an alliance of trade unions and labor-rights advocacy groups — gathered to voice their anger against the government, which plans to push through the amendment by Wednesday.
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