171:. The company immediately isolated union members in the night shift and, after they refused to resign, firing 32 of them. The company also offered bribes to the union president to dissolve the union and set up cameras to conduct surveillance on union members. Though the Labor Relations Committee ruled in favour of the workers, the company did not reinstate them. The company filed a defamation charge against the union's president for social media posts and then fired him because there were active criminal charges against him.
186:, locked 1,800 TEAM members out of a Thailand plant. The company also forced workers to attend eleven days of humiliating training at a military camp and cleaning old people's homes, among others, and forced them to publicly apologise to the company on social media. Most of the workers were reinstated in January 2018. IndustriALL Global Union condemned the harassment and filed a complaint with the Olympic's Organising Committee.
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