Recent years have seen disputes arising between labor and management and laid-off workers taking extreme measures of protest, such as lying down on railroad tracks and picketing factories. They carry out these actions not only because of an increase in labor rights consciousness, but also because their prospects have undeniably dimmed.
這幾年勞資糾紛，失業員工用激烈的手段抗爭，臥軌、圍廠、埋鍋造飯，不光是現代勞工權利意識高漲，也是因為他們的處境的確比以前艱困。