With fierce determination, a group of nine former workers of the giant automotive company General Motors (Thailand) on Monday braced a city downpour, kicking off a march that began at the company's head office in the Chatuchak area.
Their destination was the United Nations head office on Ratchadamnoen Nok Road, where they were to submit a complaint to the UN's Working Group on Business and Human Rights during its visit to Thailand in a bid to bring to its attention a five-year dispute they have had with the firm.
It's the quietest campaign I have ever seen. Their march went unnoticed by society at large. There was no media coverage, nor a public debate. Such silence tells the ugly truth about how workers' voices in the country, where labourers form one of the largest groups, are hardly heard and rights can be infringed upon.
