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The Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) yesterday confirmed that it is to offer 18 commuter train services today, even as most of its drivers go on strike. Six of the commuter trains would be express services, while 12 would be standard, the TRA said. The earliest available train is the No. 3007 express train from Changhua to Taitung departing at 6:08am, while the last is the No. 1253 standard train from Keelung to Hsinchu at 7:09pm, the TRA said. The five other express services are the No. 4007 train (Hualien-Shulin), the No. 4034 (Shulin-Hualien), the No. 4018 (Hualien-Taitung), the No. 403...

The Taiwan Railway Labor Union (TRLU) is still planning to go on strike on Sunday after it again failed to reach an agreement with the Ministry of Transportation and Communications yesterday morning. As of yesterday, the union had mobilized approximately 13,000 Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) workers to strike on International Workers’ Day in protest against the ministry’s plan to corporatize the railway agency. As no TRA trains are to run on Sunday, the ministry on Friday said that it planned to use high-speed rail trains and buses to transport people. Minister of Transportation and...

The unions that cover Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) employees lack a convincing argument to persuade the public that their strike planned for Sunday is a legitimate action protesting the government’s plan to turn the TRA into a corporation, the Society of Railway and National Planning, Taiwan said over the weekend. All three labor unions — the Taiwan Railway Labor Union (TRLU), the National Train Drivers’ Union and the Taiwan Railway Union (TRU) — have asked their members to not go to work on International Workers’ Day on Sunday to protest against a plan by the Ministry of Tra...

LEGITIMATE PROTEST? The Society of Railway and National Planning said that the unions should have lobbied for fair ticket prices, not the covering of the TRA’s debtBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter

The legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday voted nine to five to grant preliminary approval to a draft statute establishing a state-run Taiwan Railway Corp. The government is proposing transitioning the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) from an agency to a state-run corporation after major express train derailments in 2018 and last year exposed structural problems within the agency that have compromised safety. The committee considered a version of the draft statute proposed by the Taiwan Railway Labor Union, the largest union in the agency, in addition to the government’s dr...