In the past the 270,000 employees of Taiwan's state-owned enterprises have been unfailingly loyal to the ruling KMT and a consistently reliable source of votes during elections. Now they were on the streets protesting against their companies and even the government.
以往，全國各級政府的國、公營事業二十七萬名員工，一向是執政黨眼中的乖乖牌、選舉投票時的大票倉，如今他們竟走上街頭，和公司、甚至政府抗爭。