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Members of labor groups, including the Association of Work Injury Victims and the RCA Workers’ Care Association, hold placards at a news conference outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei yesterday. The groups called on the government to establish a shareholder oversight mechanism for major workplace incidents involving the four major government-backed funds, following a serious industrial incident at a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co construction site.
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