Taipei Times
Date:  Sep 03, 2015
By Abraham Gerber  /  Staff reporter

Smartphone maker HTC Corp has co-opted the company’s unions, campaigners

Representatives from several labor groups yesterday protest outside HTC’s Taoyuan factory after the company announced some layoffs. c cPhoto: CNA

from the Taoyuan Confederation of Trade Unions said yesterday, accusing the unions of failing to protect workers’ rights in the face of company layoffs.

“The Taoyuan Department of Labor has no idea whether [the unions] are operating normally because they have not received any notification of board meetings, much less meeting agendas or minutes,” Taoyuan Confederation of Trade Unions chairman Chuang Fu-kai (莊福凱) said.

The Labor Union Act (工會法) requires unions to file meeting records and financial reports with their local labor department, he said.     [FULL  STORY]