Taipei Times
Date: Jan 08, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday launched a series of postcards featuring
Postcards issued by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) showing professions that typically demand working long hours are displayed in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Lin Ling-sheng, Taipei Times
professions in which overwork is prevalent, as it tried to block amendments to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法), which are due to be reviewed in the legislature today, calling on the public to inundate lawmakers and top government agencies with postcards expressing people’s anger.
While the government is shutting out the people through thick barricades and heavy police security, the KMT designed these postcards to let the public vent their anger, KMT spokesman Huang Chien-hao (黃健豪) told a morning news conference in Taipei.
“As the Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] administration does not want to listen [to people’s voices] and President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has complained about protesters being too loud, we have to resort to the written word and the power of the Internet to let the Tsai administration see our anger,” Huang said.
Huang was referencing Tsai’s remarks in May last year in response to a spate of protests against her administration since her inauguration in May 2016. [FULL STORY]
