TAIWANESE workers have pelted police with eggs, with thousands taking to the streets to demand the government change economic policies they say favour big business.
"Up to 5000 eggs were thrown to vent our anger," Lin Tze-wen, the spokesman for the protest, told AFP at the end of the march on Sunday.
The protest ended at the presidential office square, which was cordoned off by barbed wire and hundreds of riot police.
Organisers said up to 4000 people from more than 50 labour groups took part in the event, while police put the turnout at around 3000.
No clashes with police were reported during the three-hour rally aimed at pushing the government to "turn left" in various economic and labour policies.
"Under the thinking of new liberalism, the current policies apparently have been benefiting the capitalists and the benefits of economic development have been unevenly distributed," Lin said.
Workers "have been living very hard lives", the spokesman said.
In the latest measure to anger unionists, the government in September refused to support a proposal to raise the minimum monthly wage to Tw$19,047 ($A614.51) from the current Tw$18,780.
Several business leaders had said a rise would hit firms struggling amid the global economic downturn.
Income levels have remained nearly flat for the past decade while the October jobless rate rose to 4.33 per cent.
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