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Date: 2019/02/11
By: TNL Daily News
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Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) has offered a compromise to the Taoyuan Union of Pilots in a pilots’ strike which enters its fourth day today.
Meanwhile, about 200 employees of China Airlines protested the strike on Sunday and questioned the role of union chairwoman Lee Hsin-yen (李信燕), who is a pilot for EVA Airways.
The strike kicked off on Friday over concerns of long working hours and employee fatigue, causing flight cancellations and delays to the dismay of frustrated passengers.
Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材), deputy minister of transportation and communications, said Saturday the ministry had proposed the union and airline jointly review the need for three pilots on flights between six and eight hours. The union has said three pilots should be dispatched onto flights of over seven hours, while the airline maintains the limit should be set at eight hours. [FULL STORY]
