City Council Assistants Aim to Unionize, Citing 23 Years Without Pay Raises

KAOHSIUNG CITY COUNCIL assistants announced plans to set up a new union earlier this month. In particular, city council assistants have drawn attention to the fact that salaries for city councilor assistants have remained the same for 23 years. City councilors are partly subsidized by the government to pay for their assistants, but city councilors are still only provided 240,000 NT per year for...

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