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HYDIS workers' 3rd "Taiwan Struggle Tour"

Yesterday in Taiwan's capital city Taipei: Activists from the S. Korean Hydis labour union staged their "3rd Taipei Protest"...

...(here and here you'll get reports, related to the "2nd Taipei Protest") over factory layoffs...

One of the S. Korean activists reported y'day the following:

Immolated former Hydis union leader's bereaved family, union colleagues and Tawianese supporters set up a memorial shrine to remember BAE Jae Hyoung in front of YFY Chairman HO Shou Chuan's house today...

Taiwanese workers and human rights groups joined with South Korean Hydis workers and bereaved family of labor martyr BAE Jae Hyoung to call for the company to engage in dialogue. 

However, the company continues to refuse the bereaved and workers' calls to engage in dialogue toward rescinding the plant closure, mass dismissals and for measures for the dead Hydis former union leader's family.

The press conference participants marched to YFY Chairman HO, Shou Chuan's house calling for the company to step up and engage in dialogue...

To heed dead union leader BAE Jae Hyoung's last wishes "continue your solidarity so the Hydis struggle can end in victory," the group set up a memorial shrine with Bae's photo in front of Mr Ho's house, awaiting a sincere apology and change of heart toward willingness to engage in dialogue in front of the dead BAE Jae Hyoung...

Today's (bourgeois)Taipei Times wrote: Union representatives from South Korea’s Hydis Technologies Co Ltd yesterday gathered outside the Yuen Foong Yu Group (YFY) building on their latest visit to Taipei to protest the dismissal of more than 300 workers from a factory in Icheon...(the complete article you can read here)

Related reports in Korean you'll get here, here and here. Related Chinese reports you'll get here and here.

A lot of more pics​, depicting yesterday's activities in Taipei you'll get here. And finally here, here and here you can watch videos, depicting yesterday's protest events in Taipei, staged by Hydis labour union activists.

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