The China Post
Date: September 7, 2016
By: Stephanie Chao

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Pension reforms will not cease due to a single mass rally or protests, Minister Without Portfolio Lin Wan-i (林萬億), who is deputy convener and executive director of the pension reform committee, said Tuesday.

It is “human nature” for the people who benefited under the current pension system to protest the reforms, Lin said, when asked during a television talk show to comment on concerns that the government would edge back on pension reform in the wake of demonstrations.

The Pension Reform Oversight Coalition (監督年金改革行動聯盟), who organized the protest, led over 100,000 civil servants on to the streets to demonstrate outside the Presidential Office last Saturday.

Demanding respect and an end to “the vilification of civil servants,” organizers warned of staging another march in October should the government continue its “bullying of public pensioners.”     [FULL  STORY]