英文摘要 |
While Taiwanese news media have become more and more monopolistic in recent years, news workers have suffered from bad working conditions and decreasing job opportunities. First, this paper, through surveys, governmental statistics, and media unions' reports, demonstrates how worse have the working conditions of news workers become during the past 20 years. Second, this paper describes the development of media union movement since 1988, illustrates the difficulties media unions have encountered, and analyzes factors, such as class consciousness, characteristics of news work, and occupational identity, resulting in the low union participation rates of reporters. Third, based on the research results several possible suggestions, including the cooperation among unions, the alliance with media consumers movement, the collaboration with professional organizations, and the internal social dialogue with workers, are made for Taiwanese media unions. |