【中鋼運通工會採訪通知2024.11.27】
工作權保障、勞健保復保至今仍無實質進展！
號召船員、眷屬上百輛汽機車包圍繞行中鋼大樓
準國營中鋼公司旗下100%持股子公司－中鋼運通公司，自今年7月起，28年來首度無預警將下船等候再次派船的上百位台灣船員中斷勞健保，更搭配拖延讓台灣船員再度上船工作（同時優先派用中國船員取代台灣船員）、變相逼退的手段，已讓上百名台灣船員工作權與勞動權益受嚴重侵害，家庭生計也陷入困境。
為了捍衛台灣船員的工作權與勞動權益，工會除了已透過罷工投票程序，取得台灣海運史上首次船員合法罷工權外，上（10）月也大規模動員上百名船員及家屬，北上前往勞動部陳抗，要求時任勞動部何佩珊，出面解決準國營公司帶頭打壓台灣船員工作權的嚴重問題，否則工會必將持續抗爭到底。
這段期間，雖然在勞動部、經濟部、高雄市勞工局等單位同時參與下，中運公司與工會於上週曾進行過一次勞資協商，然而，會中僅進展極有限地達成部分共識。針對工會與船員最關切的「保障工作權」、「恢復遭斷保的勞健保」等關鍵議題，至今仍無實質進展。
為再次展現工會與船員捍衛工作權決心，工會決定在明（27）日下午大規模號召船員與家屬，動員上百輛汽、機車，聚集高雄成功二路中鋼大樓前，以「包圍繞行」中鋼大樓方式，表達訴求，要求中鋼集團與中運公司儘速回應。
工會也要特別對新任勞動部洪申翰部長喊話，前任部長何佩珊去職主因，正是因忘了勞動部應扮演台灣全體勞工的後盾，相反的卻離受打壓的勞工太遠、甚至無所作為。而洪部長過去擔任立委期間，無論是去年12月出席工會揭露中運公司違法不足額提撥勞退金記者會，或近日於立院內，針對中運公司進用中國船員（取代台灣船員）引發的國安疑慮，質詢國安單位、經濟部與行政院長，事實上洪部長應是最能理解中運公司過去屢屢違反勞動法令，及台灣船員工作權遭侵害的處境。
工會呼籲洪部長接掌勞動部後，禀持過往對台灣船員權益的關切，透過行政權真正確保台灣船員工作權與勞動權益！
工會27日「包圍繞行」中鋼大樓行動主要訴求如下：
1. 確認中運船員與中運公司間僱佣關係為不定期契約，保障船員工作權。
2. 中運公司恢復為在岸候派台灣船員投保勞健保。
3. 逐步減少中國籍船員人數，台灣船員優先派船。
＊ 時間：2024年11月27日PM 14:30開始
＊ 地點：中鋼大樓前（高雄市前鎮區成功二路88號）
＊ 新聞聯絡人：中鋼運通工會理事長 王慶宏（0966-557-709）
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【中運工會1127採訪通知】英譯版
China Steel Express Union Press Interview 11/27/2024
No Progress on Employment Rights Protection and Reinstatement of Labor and Health Insurance!
Calling for Hundreds of Seafarers and Families with Cars and Motorcycles to Surround CSC Building
Since July this year, China Steel Express (CSE), a 100% subsidiary of state-owned China Steel Corporation (CSC), has abruptly cut off labor and health insurance for hundreds of Taiwanese seafarers waiting for reassignments onshore. Additionally, the company delays the reassignment of Taiwanese seafarers while prioritizing Chinese seafarers. These actions jeopardize the work rights and livelihoods of Taiwanese seafarers and their families.
To defend these rights, the union has obtained the first legal strike right for seafarers in Taiwan’s maritime history and mobilized hundreds of seafarers and their families to protest at the Ministry of Labor in October, demanding the then-Minister Ho Peishan resolve these issues. The union has vowed to continue its protests if no action is taken.
Despite a recent labor-management negotiation facilitated by the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Kaohsiung Bureau, only limited consensus was reached, and no substantial progress on key issues such as employment rights protection and the reinstatement of labor and health insurance.
To demonstrate our determination, the union has decided to mobilize hundreds of seafarers and their families with cars and motorcycles on November 27. We will gather in front of the CSC Building to “surround” the building and demand a prompt response from CSC and CSE.
The union also addresses the new Minister of Labor, Hung Shenhan that former Minister Ho’s resignation was due to her failure to support oppressed workers when needed. Minister Hung, should understand the labor issues better from his tenure as a legislator, whether it was attending the union’s press conference last December exposing CSE under contribution of employee pensions, or recently questioning CSE’s hiring Chinese crew to replace Taiwanese seafarers, which poses a threat to Taiwan’s national security. We believe that Minister Huang understands CSE’s violation of labor laws and Taiwanese seafarers’ deprivation of employment rights.
The union calls on Minister Hung to continue his concern for Taiwanese seafarers’ rights and use administrative power to ensure protection of their employment and labor rights.
The union’s demands for November 27 “Surround and Bypass” action are as follows:
- Confirm the employment relationship between CSE and its seafarers as an indefinite contract to protect their employment rights.
- CSE must reinstate labor and health insurance for Taiwanese seafarers waiting for reassignment onshore.
- Gradually reduce the hiring of Chinese seafarers, prioritizing the assignment of Taiwanese seafarers.
Time: 14:30, November 27, 2024
Location: In front of CSC Building (No.88, Chenggong 2nd Road, Kaohsiung)
Press Contact: CSE Union President Wang Qinghong (0966-557-709)
