Zakaria Jambi, 32, who worked at the factory for 11 years, was fired last June following a Facebook posting he made.

In the Facebook post, he expressed worry for one of the Indonesian workers who injured his right hand which was caught in one of the factory machines last May.

Speaking to FMT, Zakaria insisted that he had not accused the company of any wrongdoing in his post and was merely expressing his concern that the migrant worker would not be compensated.

“This is not the first time something like this has happened,” he claimed.

“There have been four accidents in the past involving migrant workers and none of them were compensated.

“I was only worried for my friend.”

A week after Zakaria was fired, his Indonesian friend told him that the company agreed to compensate him for his injury.

When asked what he planned to do now that he had lost his job, Zakaria said he was in the process of writing a book.

“I can’t find work so I’ve decided to write. I’ve written many articles before and some of them have been published in books.”

Zakaria said his book would be about the status of workers and capitalism, among other things.

The eight people who showed up to support him today included PSM Youth chief Khalid Mohd Ismath and former PSM Sri Muda candidate Abdul Razak Ismail.

Speaking into a megaphone while standing on the back of a pickup truck, Razak accused the Japanese company of oppressing local workers.

“We allow you to build your factory here because we know you can’t afford to do it in your own country and because you give our people jobs but you oppress them and pay them peanuts!” he said.

Khalid also used the megaphone at one point to call on the human resource manager to come out, amid shouts of “bangkit pekerja” (workers arise).

A security personnel asked Khalid to send an official letter if he wanted to meet the human resource manager.

“We have sent our letters. He won’t respond so we are here. We are waiting for him to come down or else we’ll ram our way in,” Khalid could be heard saying.

The guard spoke into his walkie-talkie, following which the factory gates were closed.

This move was met with laughter by some of the protesters as well as a few reporters before everyone left the scene.

Yesterday, Shah Alam police questioned Khalid and a former factory worker in connection with the planned protest.

According to Malaysiakini, Khalid had said the police threatened to arrest the protesters.

However, police only arrived at the scene today after the protest ended and no arrests were made.