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1. Employees were made to work overtime voluntarily on typhoon days; one colleague fell and fractured their ribs, and continued working while wearing a back brace. Supervisors and above only need to apply for the whitelist to connect to the company via VPN from home and direct colleagues to continue working (this does not count as overtime).

2. The wastewater illegally discharged by the Kaohsiung K7 plant is controlled from the central control room in Building K6A. According to the account of the K7 plant cleanroom supervisor, NT$100 million was allegedly paid as hush money to the relevant colleagues.

3. During the 2016 China Airlines strike, the internal union website deleted a meeting record. Its content was: “In addition to the statutory working hours, employees may continue working 200 hours (25 days of normal working hours), and the union passed the proposal as presented.”

4. The extension number of Mr. Chuang Jui-lung, the union’s standing director and spokesperson, is the same as that of Chairman Chang Chien-sheng. It is therefore reasonable to suspect that the union is a yellow union.

5. ASE’s union exists only at the Kaohsiung plant. Half of its members represent management and half represent labor, but the labor representatives are from the packaging plant only. The reason is that ASE originated as a packaging plant; when ordinary workers seek union leadership positions, they cannot obtain enough votes to meet the threshold. Union elections allow consecutive re-election without a term limit.

6. In 2015, three operators were electrocuted to death inside the K16 plant cleanroom. Because the relevant information was suppressed, no related written records were found; this was learned only through the environmental, health, and safety supervisor.

7. For deaths resulting from workplace accidents, the company provides only NT$10,000 in condolence compensation.

8. Operators of X-ray machines are required to wear radiation dosimeters, but no protective measures are provided. There was an incident in which an operator’s dosimeter fell inside an X-ray machine, and the person involved was instructed to reach in and retrieve it without shutting down the machine.