Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/28
By: Wu Hsin-yun and William Yen 
Taipei, April 28 (CNA) Hundreds of migrant workers took to the streets of Taipei Sunday, calling on the central government to abolish the private foreign worker brokerage system and replace it with a direct government-to-government hiring system.

The 200-plus migrant workers, led by the Migrant Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT), staged the demonstration in front of the Ministry of Labor (MOL), ahead of May 1, International Workers’ Day.

Traffic in Taipei’s main administrative area was diverted as the workers spread a large quilt on the road, while their demands for the abolition of the private brokerage system were blared from loudspeakers on a truck.

“Government-to-government direct hiring,” was the call on the loudspeakers, a demand that accompanied the call for the abolishment of broker fees written on the quilt.
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