The Newws Lens
Date: 2018/09/10
By: Ho Yu-hsuan
Credit: Toomore Chiang@Flickr CC BY 2.0
Tired bus drivers are a danger to us all. Here, a middle man in the disputes between bus companies and their drivers reveals all the tricks he was forced to use to keep drivers overworked.
From time to time, Taiwan’s media flashes news stories about car accidents involving buses, where the suspected cause of the accident is an overworked and therefore tired driver.
These incidents, among the worst of which saw 33 people killed in a bus crash last year, provide a timely reminder that Taiwan’s labor issues are not simply disputes between the workers and their employers, but are relevant to the safety of the general public.
In the discussion of these events, the passenger transport industry is very often boiled down to just two actors; “management executives” versus “blue-collar drivers.”
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