Taipei In order to get a sense of the issues that Taiwan is facing as the climate changes, we met with two groups: the Green Citizens Action Alliance and the Taiwan Climate Action Network. The GCCA is an older organization at more than twenty years. One of their major campaigns dating to their …
Category: Organizers Forum
Hard Road for Taiwanese Unions
Taipei We were on the hunt for union and labor activists in Taiwan. I remembered that some twenty years ago, plus or minus, either a labor federation or someone had invited and financed a visit from an ACORN representative with our Living Wage Center to come to the island to help spark the …
Migrant Workers in Taiwan – Critical, but Oppressed
Taipei The Organizers’ Forum delegation was on a deep dive to understand the situations faced by migrant workers in Taiwan with meetings early and late during one day with Jing Ru Wu and her colleagues at the Taiwan International Workers Association (TIWA) and Lennon Ying-Da Wang of Service the People Association (SPA), its …