TRANSASIA AIRWAYS NEGOTIATION BROKE, UNION TO HOLD PROTESTS|復興首次勞資協商破局 工會:不排除上街頭

TransAsia Airway's abrupt dissolution have angered many of its employees, who had been kept in the dark. Yesterday the first labor-capital meeting was held at 8:30 in the morning, but labor representatives were brusquely demanded by security personnel to present identifications and hand in their phones before entering the meeting room. On top of that, they were kept from voice recording the proceedings. Seeing what they experienced as a significant lack of goodwill on the part of TransAsia, labor representatives withdrew their participation and walked out on the meeting. According to the union, who met with the company again in the afternoon, more drastic means of protest will be undertaken if no goodwill is shown. The TransAsia Airways Workers' Union Vice President Pang was holding a meeting notice written by the Executive Officer Liu Tung-ming. Pang accused the management has no sincerity to negotiate with workers. The Union had pointed out, the management not only checked each participant, and no recordings were allowed. Furthermore, participants were asked to surrender mobile phones at the entrance. Therefore, the Union refused to negotiate with the management. ==PANG MIN-YI, TransAsia Airways Workers' Union Vice-President== Mr. Liu Tung-ming, we have 20 employees here, why don't you let us in and negotiate with you? We are willing to sit down and talk to you, why are you not willing to talk to us? The TransAsia Airways Board of Directors had passed corporation dissolution without notice on November 22. All employees are to be laid off. The Union was to settle three proposals to the management: adopting the old severance pay rates, one month pay for one year service; additional NT$300,000 for breaching contract and NT$200,000 for compensation; and 60-day advanced notice is required. However, the Union said, they were hampered in ways of nuisance before the meeting. ==MISS WU, TransAsia Airways Flight Attendant== Our colleagues lost their lives in the crashes, we blamed no one. However, we had accompanied the TransAsia Airway for a long way. Each of us here, we were never absent. We did not turn away because of the air crashes. However, this is the ending we got. The Union stated, some employees had worked for 25 years, and they are to be laid off. The Union currently has 200 members, and they urge 1,800 TransAsia employees to join for solidarity. If they do not receive a positive response from the management, the Union will mobilize protests again. TRANSLATED BY：ANTHONY LIN 復興航空企業工會副理事長，拿著執行長劉東明親手寫下協調會議書，氣憤的控訴資方沒有誠意協調還百般刁難。工會表示，開會前資方還盤查員工身分，還不准錄音錄影，要求沒收手機，讓工會拒絕跟復興協商。 ==復興航空企業工會副理事長 龎閔憶== 劉東明先生我們今天 帶了20名員工出來 請問為什麼不讓我們 進去跟你做協商 我們都坐下來 願意好好跟你談了 請問你為什麼不願意談 復興航空22號，董事會通過決議、無預警宣布解散公司，資遣全數員工。原本工會要和復興進行勞資協商會議，提出三點訴求，包括資遣費需用舊制，以年資一年需給付一個月，另需給付違約金30萬與補償金20萬。大量解雇勞工需60天前提出。但工會表示，會議還沒開始，就受到資方惡意阻饒，造成會議無法開始。 ==復興航空空服員 吳小姐== 我們(空難)離開的同事 發生空難 我(們)不會怪任何一個人 可是在這過程中 我們陪復興航空走了這麼長的路 我們每一個留在這裡的人 我們都沒有請假 沒有因為這件事(空難) 背棄公司 可是今天卻換來這樣的結果 工會表示，公司裡還有超過25年年資的員工，一路走來都陪著公司共度難關，現在公司說資遣就資遣。更呼籲，目前工會只有2百多人，希望將近1800名的員工都能加入工會。並表示，如果復興高層再不拿出善意，不排除會有更激烈的抗爭行動。 記者 李志華 謝其文 台北報導