Taiwan Railways Corporatization in 2024: Challenges and Calls for Reform

2023-10-19 13:32:04

[NOWnews今日新聞] Taiwan Railways will be corporatized in 2024. The Ministry of Transportation announced today (19th) that the first chairman and general manager will be Du Wei, the current director of Taiwan Railways, and Feng Huisheng, deputy director, respectively. In this regard, the Taiwan Railway Industrial Union criticized that if the top management remains unchanged, how can innovation be achieved? In addition to the selection of candidates, reforms have also returned to the original starting point. They called on Du Wei to propose specific measures on manpower replenishment, salary improvement, driving safety, and how to cope with the ebbing tide of corporate transformation. planning.

Industrial workers said that after the two unfortunate accidents in Taroko and Puyuma, the government promoted corporatization of Taiwan Railways under the slogan of improving operations and safety. However, the list of chairman and general manager who are crucial to the future of Taiwan Railways Corporation was not announced. Still the same cast, which is simply the biggest irony of the victims of the two accidents and the hope for reform of the Taiwan Railways.

The industry and industry bluntly stated that the “return to the origin” mentioned by the Minister of Transportation Wang Cai not only returned to the origin of the candidates, but also returned to the origin of the reform. I would like to ask Du Wei since he took office in 2021, “Has the manpower problem of the Taiwan Railways been solved? Employee treatment Has it improved? Are maintenance funds about to arrive? Has vehicle safety improved? Facing the impact of the company’s receding tide, is Chairman Du ready?”

Since Du Wei took office in April 2021, the industry and industry pointed out that he first faced the slowdown in epidemic prevention policies during the epidemic, insufficient preparation of protective equipment, and the exaggerated act of misappropriating project management fees as online publicity expenses, which was corrected by the Supervisory Yuan; 2022 The Changhua Huatan signal failure that lasted for several days in 2016 highlighted the serious shortage of talent in the Taiwan Railways. The salary for retaining talents has only been increased by 2,000 yuan, and so far there has been no response to manpower replenishment.

This year, drivers were punished for refusing to drive in compliance with safety regulations, and the absurd way of apologizing to the families of the Taroko victims via Line or phone calls has repeatedly shown that the Taiwan Railways Administration under the leadership of Du Wei is in trouble with the national finances. Even with the support, it has not done well. “How can it be that after becoming the chairman of the board, it is possible to lead the Taiwan Railway to reform in the absence of national financial support?”

“Will the things that could not be done well in the past be improved after becoming the chairman?” Industry workers advocated that Chairman Du should publicly and responsibly report to the four points of manpower replenishment, salary improvement, driving safety, and how to cope with the ebb of corporate transformation. Congress and the general public have proposed specific plans and directions.

The Taiwan Railways workers and workers also expressed great regret that today more than 100 representatives of the Taiwan Railways voted for three labor directors, Wu Changzhi, Lin Youzhe, and Huo Shanping, who represent 16,000 Taiwan Railways employees. This is a mockery of Taiwan’s gender and democracy, and even more so. There are concerns about whether the labor director will act with integrity in the future, especially since the first labor director is bound to be involved in a large number of discussions on asset development and land sales.

Industrial workers mentioned that Wu Changzhi told the media many times in the past that “we cannot serve as labor directors, we will only help with some coordination work first” and “it will definitely not be us when it is officially listed.” He has repeatedly stated that he will only assist during the preparation period and will not wait until the official listing. When formal directors are elected at the end of this year, the two of them will step down. Now running for election is a disgrace to their public commitments at the time, and there is no integrity at all. The industry and industry still advocates direct employee selection and a clear qualification mechanism, and refuses to accept those with serious breach records, Those who have been sentenced and who hold government or political party positions are not allowed to hold such positions.

The industry and workers also requested that the Ministry of Transportation should reject the appointment list of labor directors of the Taiwan Railways Corporation and not shield rapists and those with serious record violations.

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