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<\/p>\r\nIn a meeting on June 29, voting delegates of the Taiwan Public Television Service Enterprise Union (TPTSEU), a UNI Global Union affiliate, overwhelmingly approved the adoption of new by-laws governing the nomination and selection of a union representative to serve on the Governing Board of the Taiwan Public Television Service (PTS).<\/p>\r\n
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The new by-laws signify an exceptional turning point in TPTSEU\u2019s seventeen-year-long campaign to have an elected worker representative on the board of directors at PTS and ensure good governance and independence of public media in Taiwan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
The TPTSEU\u2019s meeting was made possible after a Legislative Yuan (Taiwan\u2019s Parliament) session on 26 May 2023 amended the Public Television Act (PTA), which defines the role, function and organizing of the publicly funded Public Television Service Foundation. The PTA also defines how the Governing Board of Directors of the Public Television Service Foundation (PTS) should be composed.<\/p>\r\n
The significant changes made on May 26 are in the PTA Chapter Two, Article 13, which specifies that one of the 11 to 15 Governing Board of Directors must be a workers\u2019 representative. The amended article also endorses the TPTSEU\u2019s authority to nominate a worker representative, referred to as an Employee-Director.<\/p>\r\n
Before the amendment, in 2007, the TPTSEU negotiated a breakthrough agreement with the government that allowed the union to nominate a representative to the Governing Board, comprising 11 to 15 members.<\/p>\r\n
However, the arrangement was on a goodwill basis. The TPTSEU nominee still needed to be endorsed by the Legislative Yuan\u2019s Review Committee before being confirmed as one of the directors.<\/p>\r\n
The latest PTA amendment in 2023 ensures that the right to nominate a worker representative to the board as a director is recognized and institutionalised under the law.<\/p>\r\n
Hamilton Cheng, TPTSEU\u2019s representative to the UNI Asia & Pacific\u2019s Media, Entertainment & Arts Committee, said: \u201cThis win is a milestone for us and ensures that our union\u2019s independent and unbiased selection process is respected and empowers workers and their representatives to actively contribute to the media industry’s governance.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
The Taiwan PTS is now only the second public service media body, after ABC Australia, to achieve direct Employee Directorship by workers\u2019 union recommendation in Asia and the Pacific.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a meeting on June 29, voting delegates of the Taiwan Public Television Service Enterprise Union (TPTSEU), a UNI Global Union affiliate, overwhelmingly approved the adoption of new by-laws governing the nomination and selection of a union representative to serve on the Governing Board of the Taiwan Public Television Service (PTS). The new by-laws signify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":10900,"template":"","categories":[41],"global-issues":[],"sectors":[16],"cross-sector-groups":[],"workers-rights":[],"regions":[153],"topics":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n