The Taiwan Railways Union has criticized a 40% increase in salary for the chair and general manager of the Taiwan Railways Corporation. This means that the chair of the TRC will make 191,380 NT per month and the general manager will make 187,130 NT per month...
Strikes for EVA Air and the Taiwan Railways are off ahead of the Lunar New Year, following negotiations by unions in both EVA and the Taiwan Railways Corporation with the management of both companies. If the strikes had gone ahead, this would have posed significant disruption to travelers seeking to return home for the holidays...
The corporatization of the Taiwan Railways Administration, changing it from an agency of government into the state-owned enterprise of the Taiwan Railways Corporation, puts an end to a long-run labor struggle by workers. The struggle went on for many years, but the inability of workers to stop the corporatization reflects the weakness, in many ways, of Taiwanese labor...
The Taiwan Railways Administration was recently fined 300,000 NT for allowing unlicensed staff to drive vehicles used to repair tracks. This is the first time since 2021 that the TRA has faced such fines. Since the incident, the TRA claims that the staff members who were allowed to test the vehicles will undergo the licensing process...
The multi-year saga of the Taiwan Railways Administration corporatization continues, with the Taiwan Railways Union threatening a strike on May 1st over debt issues faced by the government body. May 1st is commemorated as International Workers’ Day, or May Day, in Taiwan and many other parts of the world...
Taiwan Railways workers may again strike on June 3rd, over the Dragon Boat Holiday, as a show of force against the Taiwan Railways Administration management’s plans to privatize the railway. As 1,348 of the TRA’s 1,400 train drivers have voted to support calls from the Taiwan Railways Union to strike that day by taking the day off...
Several hundred gathered in front of the Presidential Office today in order to commemorate International Workers' Day, also known as May Day. A color stage was set up on Ketagalan Boulevard for the occasion...
On International Labor Day on May 1st, also known as May Day in other parts of the world, more than 12,000 Taiwan Railways Administration workers will take a day off in order to protest attempts by management to corporatize. The Taiwan Railways Administration is currently run as a part of government...
A demolition accident in Kaohsiung over the Tomb Sweeping Holiday led to 126,000 passengers being affected by delays on Friday. The accident took place after a 52-meter storage silo fell in the wrong direction during the demolition process and knocked out a transmission tower and 69 KV power line supplying power to trains operated by the Taiwan Railways Administration and Taiwan High-Speed Rail Corporation...
