Workers at the Taiwan Railways Corporation threatened to strike in response to plans by the company to issue bonuses in the form of vouchers over the Mid-Autumn Festival earlier this month. The company previously claimed that it would issue cash bonuses for workers who worked over the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although no strike happened, in the end, the incident is worth noting...
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...