Taipei Times
Date: Aug 26, 2016
By: Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter
Conflict broke out at a government forum on plans to implement a five-day workweek, after several
Labor rights advocates yesterday rally outside the Bureau of Labor Insurance in Taipei to call on the government to drop plans to cut national holidays. Photo: Liao Chen-hui, Taipei Times
protesters confronted Deputy Minister of Labor Kuo Kuo-wen (郭國文) accusing him of “bullshit.”
The forum quickly descended into a shouting match after about 10 members of the Workers’ Struggle Alliance took the floor, surrounding Kuo and demanding that he accept a poster describing him as a “bullshit deputy minister [who is a] killer of workers.”
“There has been too much time wasted with you doing all the talking, refusing to let workers voice [their concerns}, alliance member Lu Chyi-horng (盧其宏) said. “Don’t you know that most low-level workers are not allowed to take their yearly vacation days and cutting national holidays will harm their rights?”
Forum tables were pushed aside as protesters repeatedly pressed against Kuo, repeatedly interrupting his calls for dialogue with a blister of angry shouting. [FULL STORY]
