The Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union yesterday urged China Airlines to replace chairman Ho Nuan-hsuan (何煖軒) and deliver on its promises to the Taoyuan Union of Pilots as the pilots’ strike entered its seventh day.
The company has been managing its employees in a relentless and dishonest manner, having gone back on its promises multiple times, the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union said in a statement.
To improve the company’s management, Ho should be replaced, it said.
“The airline’s upper management should show their integrity by meeting agreements made with the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union three years ago, as well as their promises to the Taoyuan Union of Pilots, and stop retaliating against union members,” the statement said.
Since last year, the company has been fined by the Ministry of Labor more than 10 times for retaliating against union members and interfering with union affairs, it said.
China Airlines flight attendants on June 24, 2016, launched a three-day strike after the company decided that many flight attendants should report to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, instead of Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport), which would have significantly reduced their rest time between shifts.
The strike forced the company to agree to seven demands by the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union, including allowing fight attendants to report to their original work location and raising union members’ overseas allowances.
However, of the seven agreements, China Airlines has so far gone back on four of them, the statement said.
For example, the company raised the overseas allowance for all flight attendants, including those who are not members of the union, but refused to give union representatives leave when they needed to handle union affairs, it said.
“China Airlines blatantly disregarded its promises to the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union in 2016, even though it signed a formal agreement with it in front of officials from the Ministry of Labor,” the statement said.
The Taoyuan Union of Pilots needs to be aware of the company’s track record and not fall for the same trap, it said.
Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai’s (王國材) remark yesterday that words said during negotiations are not legally binding suggests the government would support the airline if it refused to carry out its promises, the statement said.
The Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union supports the pilots’ strike and would “wage another war” against the company if they must do so to protect members’ rights, it said.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching