The Way We Were

Spanning over a period of 10 years, this film is about a group of workers who stood up in protest against an illegal factory shutdown. In May 1992, Chin-Shiang Textile employees suffered various assaults by their company from salary cuts to unexplained demotion and the sudden shutdown of the factory. From reticence to picketing the factory, the dispute escalated to public demonstrations and even the active involvement and guidance of professionals from Taiwan’s Worker’s Movement. The process of their fight wrote down the first page in the history of Taiwan’s labor movement.