The Ministry of Transportation and Communications continues to pursue plans to extend the high-speed rail to Yilan. The extension will run from Nangang in Taipei through Xizhi, Pingxi, Shuangxi and Gongliao in New Taipei before entering Toucheng in Yilan...
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...
The Taiwan Railways Union has criticized plans to extend the high-speed rail from Taipei to Yilan. Plans for the high-speed rail have already conditionally cleared an environmental impact assessment, perhaps showing that the government intends to push the project through quickly...
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...
