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Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories

(This is the second of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Read the first story here.) The chip worker set off from a small coastal town in the Filipino province of Batangas with one suitcase, a backpack, and high hopes that, though she had to leave her two kids at home, her new job in Taiwan would help them afford a better lifestyle. Fresh off the plane in Taipei, the worker, who asked to be called Jenny, was lined up with other workers, herded into a van, a...

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