CHING-JEN LABOR HEALTH AND SAFETY SERVICE CENTER

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Latest Update: 2006.01

Dear friends,

 Ching-Jen Labor Health & Safety Service Center will be closed at the end of Jan 2006, due to financial problem. The original work of Ching-Jen Center-- including local labor investigation, Taiwan TNCs monitoring and international anti-sweatshop solidarity, will move to Taiwan Labor Information & Education Association (TLIEA). The original contacts of Ching-Jen Center will be out of use at the same time. The contacts of TLIEA are as below,

Taiwan Labor Information & Education Association (TLIEA)

Add：P.O. Box 2-117, Mujha, Taipei City 116, TAIWAN

Tel：+886-2-86610275  Fax：+886-2-29395054

E-mail: tliea.org@gmail.com

　

　

　

Introduction

  Ching-Jen is a Catholic Church based NGO engaged in promoting active workers' participation in labor health and safety issues. We provide technical, material, and moral support to the labor unions and other workers' communities, in order to increase the health and safety awareness of the workers and initiate improvements in the existing working conditions.

  As Christians we believe that the right to healthy and safe working environments is a basis human right. This basic inspiration is also reflected in our name 'Ching-Jen' which means 'respect for human beings'.

  Under the global economy, Taiwan companies go aboard a lot to invest in other Third World countries. Taiwan investors take the advantage of cheap labor forces and often ignore basic labor rights. This situation not only exploits the workers in the invested countries, but the working condition in Taiwan also gets down because of the threat of moving out. In this sense, Ching-Jen takes part in TNC-monitoring issues from recent years. We joined some international campaign to strengthen workers’ solidarity across boundary, like Nien-Hsing (Chentex) dispute in Nicaragua and Tainan Enterprise dispute in El Salvador, in these cases company owners coming from Taiwan.

Short History

Jul 1990: foundation of Ching-Jen

Jun 1992: establishment of Taiwan Association for Victims of Occupational Injuries (TAVOI)

Apr 1995: establishment of Group for Promotion of the Rights of Workers with Pneumoconiosis

1997: joint in Asian Network for the Rights Of Occupational Accident Victims (ANROAV)

Sep 2000: establishment of Taiwan Solidarity with Nicaraguan Workers with some friend labor groups

Feb 2002: co-establishment of Focus on Globalization advocating globalization issues in local

2003: joint in Asia regional Asian TransNational Corporations (ATNC) Monitoring Network launched by AMRC and DAGA

Objectives

Victims Department:

  • organize victims of occupational accidents and diseases
  • protect the rights of the victims and their families
  • assist victims in pinpointing the relationships of their health problems to their working conditions
  • train victims and involve them in workers' education

Unions Department:

  • help unions develop Health and Safety Committees

  • organize labor education trainings for union members

  • provide unions with supporting data and information which can help them in bargaining for adequate provisions with management

  • lobby for better laws and better enforcement of laws relative to labor

  • advocate labor's international solidarity

Department of Research and Publication:

  • publish quarterly Chinese newsletter

  • produce labor education booklets and brochures

  • gather data and information on general working conditions

  • produce and disseminate findings of labor researches to all interested parties

CHING-JEN LABOR HEALTH AND SAFETY SERVICE CENTER 

Address: No. 2, Lane 175, Ta-Li Street, 108, Taipei City, Taiwan
TEL: (886)2-23043217   FAX: (886)2-23043254
E-mail: cjlhassc@ms39.hinet.net