Labor

Teachers Demonstrate Against Campus Incident Meetings

Brian Hioe
Hundreds of teachers demonstrated in late January against practices on campuses criticized as leading to the bullying and targeting of teachers. Specifically, the practice of the campus incident meeting has been singled out as leading teachers to be targeted by students. As such, more than one thousand teachers participated in a demonstration outside of the Ministry of Education against the practice of “campus incident meetings"...
EnglishFebruary 2026LaborPolitics4 min read

Proposal to Recruit International Students as Bus Drivers Furthers Migrant Exploitation

Brian Hioe
The Highway Bureau is reportedly considering recruiting international students and students of ethnic Han descent to fill positions as bus drivers, provided they speak intermediate-level Chinese. This continues the pattern of Taiwan opening up migrant worker categories for the so-called “3D”–“dirty, dangerous, and demeaning”–jobs that Taiwanese no longer want to take up themselves...
EnglishJanuary 2026LaborRaceSocial Movements4 min read