The Taiwan Railways Corporation has announced price hikes of 26.8%. The price hikes have already been approved by the Executive Yuan. Nevertheless, the price hikes will be the first time in thirty years that the Taiwan Railways has raised prices. They will take effect on June 23rd...
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...
A number of union groups demonstrated last week to call for inclusion in talks over the new incoming government’s labor policy. This included among Taiwan’s largest coalitions of organized labor groups. The demonstration was fronted by the Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions, which protested alongside the Kaohsiung City Confederation of Trade Unions, National Federation of Teachers Unions, Taipei Federation of Trade Unions, and Taiwan Federation of Financial Unions...
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 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...
