Taipei Times
Date: Jun 24, 2017
By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporter
Regulations allow exploitative overtime hours to be imposed on transportation workers, labor groups said
Protesters from several transportation unions yesterday perform a skit outside the Ministry of Transportation and Communications building in Taipei to protest against regulations that they say allow exploitative overtime hours to be imposed on transportation workers. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
yesterday in a protest outside the Ministry of Transportation and Communications building in Taipei on the one-year anniversary of the China Airlines strike.
More than 100 members of several transportation unions shouted slogans and threw balloons filled with red water at the ministry’s doors to symbolize the “blood and sweat” they say ministry rules force them to give to their employers.
“Last year, we fought for the right to rest and we are still fighting today, because the government’s and China Airlines’ promises of reform have fallen through,” Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union director Lin Hsin-yi (林馨怡) said.
Union board director Chu Liang-chun (朱良駿) cited a decision by China Airlines to cut employees’ rest time between transoceanic flights, along with rumors that the Civil Aeronautics Administration is considering reducing the ratio of flight attendants to passengers. [FULL STORY]
