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Premier interfered in labor union vote, lawmaker charges

PFP Lawmaker Lin Hui-kuan (林惠官) yesterday accused Premier Yu Shyi-kun of pleasing TSU lawmakers by interfering and forcing Lin to give up his recently won presidency of the Chinese Federation of Labor (CFL).

"According to my investigation, in order to please TSU lawmakers, Yu took advantage of his position and asked the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) to relieve me of my position so I would be disqualified as the CFL's president," Lin said.

At a press conference yesterday, Lin displayed an official notice from the TRA which said that Lin must resign either his position as a technical assistant at the TRA or his position as a lawmaker.

A technical assistant at the TRA is responsible for maintaining locomotives and train cars.

Lin won his presidency with 91 votes from 106 members in the CFL elections on April 17, even though his position as a TRA technical assistant would cease to exist after April 23.

But even before he'd won the vote, TSU lawmakers Chen Chien-ming (陳建銘) and Liao Pen-yen (廖本煙) had held a press conference on April 15. They urged the TRA to suspend Lin from his position, saying that the Constitution and the Civil Servant Services Act prohibited Lin from concurrently serving as a both a civil servant and a lawmaker.

Lin yesterday said that he had not broken any laws because he was on leave from the job. "My application for leave without pay had already been approved by the TRA when I won my campaign for the seat in the legislature," he said.

According to Lin, in response to the lawmakers' request, the premier immediately called Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Ling-san (林陵三) and asked him to take care of this matter.

"It is very difficult to convince me that they did not do it on purpose. That is why I am protesting today," Lin said.
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