… The union at TaiDoc Technology Corp … said yesterday that it will launch a strike campaign to press the medical device maker to meet its demands, including reinstating dismissed union officials.

Union members and labor groups chanted slogans during a protest outside the Ministry of Labor in Taipei yesterday morning.

It was the union’s fourth protest at the ministry, following three demonstrations over what it described as overly strict management rules for migrant workers and alleged union-busting.

Fang Chang …a labor rights advocate who hosted the protest, said the New Taipei City-based company dismissed all union officials the day after the union’s third protest on Monday last week over the firing of its chair.

Afterward, Chang said, TaiDoc chairman Chen Chao-wang… offered to reinstate the six officials during a videoconference on the condition that they quit the union, an offer they rejected. They were then forced out of their dormitories the following day.

Union chair Elizabeth Basas said the strike campaign was announced outside the Ministry of Labor on Lunar New Year’s Eve to underscore the union’s determination to continue its actions until the dispute is resolved…

TaiDoc later said it would not respond to the union’s protest or demands…