The Protest

Kaohsiung MRT foreign workers scandal that occurred on August 21th, 2005, is the most internationally-acclaimed and most influential case of foreign labor resistance since Taiwan began to hire foreign workers. Thai workers hired for the job rioted to protest bad working conditions. On the night of the incident, the Thai workers claimed that an administrator had beaten three of them with electric shock rods, causing more than 1,700 Thai workers to provoke anger, they burned down the management center and destroyed a dormitory under construction. But fifteen years later, when we interviewed several Thai workers currently working in Taiwan, they knew nothing about the issue …