The march on Sunday demands improvement of labor rights
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/06
By: Juvina Lai, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Hundreds of migrant workers will be seen marching in the
(By Central News Agency)
streets of Taipei on Sunday with the theme ‘Recognizing Non-Citizens’, an action to bring to the government’s attention the need to improve current labor policies as well as to consider involving the workers themselves while creating new policies that would affect the migrant workers directly.
The demonstrations will start from the Ministry of Labor at 1:30 pm and will move to Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building.
“The theme of this rally is ‘Recognizing Non-Citizens.’ We hope that Taiwanese society will recognize the lack of political rights of these non-citizens, who, like local citizens, live, consume and pay taxes in Taiwan,” said Hsu Wei-tung (許惟棟), a member of the Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT), as reported by the Central News Agency (CNA). [FULL STORY]