GREATER OVERVIEW: While industrial and trade unions have 2.8 million members, just 58,000 people are members of their companies’ unions
Taipei Times
Date: May 29, 2018
By: Ann Maxon / Staff reporter
A coalition of unions yesterday protested outside the Ministry of Labor in Taipei to
Members from a coalition of industrial and trade unions yesterday protest outside the Ministry of Labor in Taipei to demand that the ministry include non-company union representatives in labor inspections. Photo: CNA
demand that it include industrial and trade union members in labor inspections.
The protest was organized by a dozen unions, including the Taiwan Higher Education Union, the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC) Labor Union and the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union.
At present, before conducting labor inspections at a company, authorities must invite members of the company’s union to take part, but not those in industrial and trade unions, the groups said in a statement.
Only 58,000 Taiwanese are members of their companies’ unions, which account for just 5.4 percent of the nation’s workers, they said. [FULL STORY]
