The Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions (TCTU) said Thursday that members of several labor rights groups will take to the streets May 1 -- Labor Day -- to protest poverty in Taiwan and what it calls the 'obviously inequitable distribution of wealth in the country.' The demonstration, dubbed an anti-poverty march, will highlight four appeals, including an appeal for democratic supervision of an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) that Taiwan is set to sign with China, and that blue- collar workers' rights should be included in the ECFA talks, said TCTU Chairman Shih Chao-hsien. Shih said many workers see the ECFA as benefiting only big business conglomerates and their owners, to the detriment of lower-echelon workers. 'Without any positive prospects in sight, laborers will take to the streets on Labor Day to protest President Ma Ying-jeou's administration,' he said. Another appeal to the government is to forbid dispatched work and oppose service outsourcing -- under which business owners enjoy lower labor costs because they do not have to pay benefits, severance or other packages to such workers -- according to Shih. The two other appeals will be for 'labor union autonomy and opposition to schemes to destroy labor unions, ' as well as 'allowing all wage earners to receive monthly pensions,' Shih added. Meanwhile, TCTU Secretary-General Hsieh Chuang-chih said the demonstration will start at around noon May 1 at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in downtown Taipei and end in front of the Executive Yuan. 'The demonstrators will be ready for further moves if the Executive Yuan does not give constructive answers that day, ' Hsieh warned. 