NTNU teachers demand better rightsBy Hollie Younger / Staff writer, with CNAChinese-language teachers from National Taiwan Normal University’s (NTNU) Mandarin Training Center (MTC) yesterday protested outside the school to demand better labor rights and protections. Of the center’s 90 language instructors, 73 have joined a labor union that is demanding a collective bargaining process with the university. The union has made four requests of NTNU — compliance with labor laws, stable employment contracts, better institutional transparency and reasonable employment benefits. The teachers are therefore also not guaranteed provisions granted under the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法), including sick leave, bereavement leave, marital leave and parental leave, Du said. When teachers take sick days, they often have to pay the hourly teaching rate for substitute teachers out of their own pocket, he said.

Source: Taipei Times March 20, 2026 17:14 UTC