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More than 1,000 Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) workers yesterday protested the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ plan to corporatize the agency, saying that the ministry drafted the statute establishing Taiwan Railway Corp without thoroughly communicating with the workers’ unions. Members of the Taiwan Railway Labor Union (TRLU) and two other unions in the railway agency marched from Taipei Railway Station to the Legislative Yuan and handed a petition to lawmakers serving on the legislature’s Transportation Committee. TRLU chairman Chen Shih-chieh (陳世杰) said that...
Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) yesterday told Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) employees that their salaries and benefits would remain in place after the agency is transformed into a state-run corporation. TRA employees are civil servants recruited through a government railway service exam. Once a state-run railway company is established, each employee would have five years to consider whether to continue being a civil servant or become a company employee, Wang told lawmakers of the legislature’s Transportation Committee. The dual-track system wo...
Soaring crude oil prices have led to an increase in the aviation fuel surcharge for international flights, but it would not affect bus fares at the moment, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said in a report yesterday at a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee. The average price of diesel has risen to NT$27.096 per liter, which has exceeded the threshold of NT$26.297 per liter for a highway bus rate hike, the report said. Based on the ministry’s pricing scheme, highway bus operators can raise the basic rate from NT$3.48 per passenger-kilometer to NT$3.593 p...
Lawmakers yesterday asked the Ministry of Transportation and Communications by the end of this month to submit an investigation report on a five-hour power outage at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Friday last week. Taoyuan International Airport Corp (TIAC) first told local media that the blackout, which mainly disrupted operations at Terminal 2, was caused by a tripped circuit. However, an investigation by the Aviation Police Bureau found it was caused by two temporary construction workers who allegedly tampered with electric cables in non-restricted areas at the airport. Police qu...