The Protest

The story is about the most internationally-acclaimed and most influential case of foreign labor resistance in Taiwan.

The 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, provoking more than 1,700 angry Thai workers to burn down the management center and destroy a dormitory still under construction. But when we interviewed several Thai workers in Taiwan 15 years later, none of them knew about the incident…