Taiwan Railways Corporation

Taiwan Railways Union Hunger Strikes Against Court Ruling

Brian Hioe
The Taiwan Railways Union went on a 100-hour hunger strike that began at Taipei Main Station over the last weekend. This was in protest of a ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court, which found workers as having acted in bad faith through a labor protest that took the form of 337 union members taking leave over the Lunar New Year from January 27 to January 30, 2017, and only informing the company of their planned leave on January 23rd. The ruling also decided that the Taiwan Railways Administration had not engaged in unfair labor practices and was not in the wrong in marking workers who took leave as absent without authorization...
EnglishLaborNovember 2025Social Movements4 min read

Corporatization of the Taiwan Railways Administration Represents Defeat for Labor

Brian Hioe
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...
EnglishJanuary 2023LaborSocial Movements5 min read