On February 22, Taiwan's "United Daily News" published an editorial entitled "80,000 Runaway Laborers Still Have No Solution, and Another Way for India" was published on February 22, saying that Taiwan and India recently signed a memorandum of labor cooperation to bring Indian workers into Taiwan. Before the election, there were rumors that 100,000 Indian workers would be brought in, which was dismissed by the authorities as "disinformation" for cognitive warfare, and now the rumors have been confirmed. However, as for the actual number of people introduced, ** claims that it will depend on the actual needs of different industries, and it is by no means the introduction of 100,000 Indian workers. The problem is that the number of fugitive workers in Taiwan is now as high as 860,000, ** is helpless about this, but immediately found another way to introduce new workers to fill it, isn't it adding fuel to the fire?
The editorial pointed out that the number of imported workers in Taiwan has increased year by year, and now exceeds 750,000, of which as many as 11% of the workers have escaped without a trace. Such a high proportion of workers are out of contact, which shows that there is a lack of good management policies, and intermediaries have the right to charge high fees but are not responsibleThe second reflects the chaos of the labor market, the serious situation of illegal employment by the people, and the willingness of workers to flee for higher wagesThe third reflects the laziness of the ** department, which has no intention of dealing with the hot potato of the escape of laborers, and pretends that this will not pose a threat to social security.
This time, many people questioned the introduction of Indian laborers, mainly because Taiwan already has Vietnamese, Indonesian, Philippine and Thai workers, who believe in different religions and speak different languages, and the families and enterprises and even society that introduce workers need to adapt to it. If Indian workers are added, it will require greater running-in, which will increase the burden of adaptation on employers and society.
The editorial also said that one of the sequelae of Taiwan's large number of foreign workers in recent years is the solidification of low wages in traditional industries. Some industries are satisfied with low-cost operation and do not want to upgrade and transform at all, resulting in the young working population who have just left society also becoming low-wage earners. Although Tsai Ing-wen has raised her basic salary year after year during her tenure, her beneficiaries are mainly migrant workers. As far as the island's young people are concerned, the industry is not improved, and the wages are depressed, and they are becoming more and more unsuccessful, and many are forced to become busy delivery people on the streets.
The editorial concluded by saying that if the authorities fail to consider the development of the people from the perspective of industry and social structure, and blindly want to use cheap labor to fill the problem of labor shortage in traditional industries, Taiwan's human development and economic development will inevitably face extremely severe rupture in the future.