Taiwan Broadcasting System (TBS) chairman Chen Sheng-fu (陳勝福) yesterday reached an agreement with members of the Chinese Television System (CTS) union, making several promises, including postponing the appointment of CTS’ new chief executive (CEO).
Originally, CTS’ board of directors planned to announce the appointment of the CEO for CTS during a board meeting last night. However, CTS union members voiced their opposition, saying that the appointment should be made only after TBS elects its new board of directors, which would then elect a new board of directors for CTS, a spokesman for the CTS union, Chang Ti-hao (張迪皓), said.
CTS is part of the TBS group.
“As TBS holds more than 80 percent of CTS shares, the TBS board of directors has the final say on who should be on the CTS board of directors, and most TBS board members actually are CTS board members at the same time,” Chang said.
“We CTS union members and employees think that, since the current TBS board of directors is only a temporary one following disputes on changes of members, they should wait until the official fifth TBS board of directors is formed, and subsequently selects the next CTS board of directors,” he said, adding that the union also believes that, being a member of the public broadcasting group, CTS’ chief executive should be recruited and selected publicly.
The CTS union initially planned to stage a candle-light rally outside CTS headquarters in Taipei, but the plan was changed after Chen called an emergency meeting with CTS union members at 6pm.
“During the meeting, Chen — along with several other TBS board members — agreed to postpone the election of the CEO for CTS until the new board was elected.
He also agreed to work with the union to push for revisions in the Public Television Act [公共電視法], and to raise the benefits and compensation of CTS employees to the same level as PTS employees,” Cheng said.
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