The China Post
Date: January 7, 2017
By: The China Post news staff
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s teachers have threatened to go on a de facto strike next week to protest the
Taiwan’s teachers have threatened to go on a de facto strike next week to protest the government’s pension reform plan that promises to delay their retirement.
government’s pension reform plan that promises to delay their retirement.
Leaders of the National Federation of Teachers Unions on Friday called on its members to “collectively” take a leave of absence on Monday. Taiwan’s teachers are forbidden by law to go on a strike.
The NFTU leaders said they expected 100,000 teachers nationwide to respond to their call to action, which will also include flooding President Tsai Ing-wen’s Facebook page with messages and organizing demonstrations at local government offices.
The pension reform is seeking to delay teachers’ retirement age to 60. The current system allows most of them to retire in their early 50s. [FULL STORY]
