US union activists warned by police of deportation risk - TW

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By Cody Yiu
STAFF REPORTER

Five Americans may face deportation for participating in a hunger strike and demonstrations over Taiwan-US labor disputes.

"Since our arrival, we have been approached by the Foreign Affairs Police and been told that what we are doing is in violation of the Taiwanese law as we are foreigners. Yesterday, we were threatened that if we continue with what we are doing here in Taiwan, we may face possible deportation," said Joe Drexler, director of special projects at the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers' International Union (PACE).

Five Americans with PACE held a hunger strike outside China Synthetic Rubber Corp yesterday, following a similar protest outside the offices of Taiwan Cement last Friday to draw attention to their grievances with the Koo Group.

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