Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-07
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A teachers’ union announced Wednesday it would no longer attend meetings of 
The move followed a protest last Saturday by more than 100,000 present and retired civil servants, including teachers and military, against President Tsai Ing-wen’s plans to reform the pension system in order to avoid bankruptcy.
Minister without Portfolio Lin Wan-yi, who chairs the reform committee, expressed regret at the decision by the National Federation of Teachers’ Unions and said he hoped the group could still contribute to the debate. The NFTU was opposed to the September 3 protest.
One of the complaints from the NFTU was that the committee’s previous 11 meetings were hardly efficient and showed too little progress on the issues. Lin promised that future discussions would move faster and stay closer to the core topics of pension reform. [FULL STORY]