The China Post
Date: September 10, 2016
By: Yuan-Ming Chiao
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Workers from the state-owned Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA, 台鐵) took to
Railway union protesters hold a banner reading: “Taiwan Railway Administration forces overtime” outside the Executive Yuan building in Taipei, Friday. (Yuan-Ming Chiao, The China Post)
the streets in front of the Executive Yuan in protest again Friday, casting doubt over an earlier deal to avert a staff shortage during Mid-Autumn Festival.
Dozens of members of the Taiwan Railway Union (TRU, 台鐵產業公會) braved heavy rain to deliver 1,800 separate petitions to the Cabinet, declaring their intention to take Sept. 15 and 16 off en masse in protest at alleged “compulsory overtime.”
The union represents train service personnel and ticket collectors working for the national railway.
TRU Director-General Wang Chieh (王傑) said that TRA had made the unprecedented move of handing out overtime pay in advance, and the advance compensation had given workers the impression they would be forced to accept shifts over the upcoming holiday period. [FULL STORY]