It is employees’ basic right to form unions. However, due to outdated laws, teachers in Taiwan have been deprived of such right for 60 years. All of the teachers' associations from three different levels, including the School Teachers’ Association at the school level, the Local Teachers’ Association at the municipal and county (city) levels and the National Teachers’ Association at the national level, spent more than ten years lobbying relentlessly. Finally, on Labor Day, May 1st, 2011, the ban was officially lifted, and the loss of our right was regained. This goes to show that an outdated labor law will never stop the progress of society. Afterwards, the National Federation of Teachers Unions was founded in less than 70 days by fellow teachers, symbolizing the resolution of teachers in abolishing these bans, as well as their recognition for the sanctity of labor.

So far, 20 teachers' unions in 20 counties and cities, including professional unions and industrial unions, have joined NFTU. We already have over 86,000 teachers as members, and the number is growing.

Liu, Chin-Hsu, the first and second president of NFTU, works at Hu-Shan Elementary School, Nantou County, and is the current president of National Teachers Association at the same time. Wu, Chung-Tai, the first and second vice-president, works at Dun-Hua Junior High School, Taipei, and he was a two-term president for NTA. Both of them as well as many member representatives of NFTU have given years of effort in teachers’ movement. They are very experienced in education policy competition and cooperation with social movements. They believe the foundation of NFTU will contribute greatly to correcting the errors of educational policies.