Labor Party (Taiwan)

Labor Party
勞動黨
ChairmanWu Jung-yuan
Vice Chairmen
  • Tang Shu
  • Wang Chuan-ping
Honorary ChairmanLuo Mei-wen
Founded29 March 1989 (1989-03-29)
Headquarters6th Floor, No. 25, Lane 344, Nanjing West Road, Datong District, Taipei
Membership (2019)~400[1][needs update]
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing[2][3]
Legislative Yuan
0 / 113
Municipal mayors
0 / 6
Magistrates / mayors
0 / 16
Councilors
1 / 912
Township / city mayors
0 / 204
Party flag
Website
laborparty.tw
Labor Party
Traditional Chinese勞動黨
Simplified Chinese劳动党
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLáodòng Dǎng
Hakka
RomanizationLò-thung Tóng
Southern Min
Hokkien POJLô-tōng Tóng

The Labor Party[I] is a left-wing political party in Taiwan, founded on 29 March 1989 by a striking trade union in Xinpu, Hsinchu County. It is part of the wider labor movement in Taiwan, and advocates for labor reforms and the redistribution of social resources. The party also supports the unification of Taiwan with mainland China, with a high level of autonomy reserved for Taiwan under the "one country, two systems" principle.

Party members often assist in unionizing workers and regularly hold protests against the government's labor policies, as well as perceived imperialism from the United States and Japan. Notable labor demonstrations that the Labor Party helped organize include the 2004 Yaowen Electric protests [zh], 2004 Hsinta strike [zh] and 2009 labor dispute against TSMC.

  1. ^ "認識勞動黨:常見問與答". laborparty.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Labor Party (Taiwan). Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  2. ^ "台湾劳动党主席吴荣元:大陆必须照顾台湾劳工-搜狐新闻". Sohu News (in Chinese). 2 March 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Party Supporters Burn U.S. Flags, Hurl Eggs". Voice of Free China. Broadcasting Corporation of China. U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 2 December 1995. Retrieved 13 February 2021.


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