When the company KT announced its new so-called downsizing plan in 2000, they fired 7,000 contract workers. The targeted workers launched a new union and waged a bitter struggle. After 517 consecutive days, the union lost, in the face of police oppression and betrayal by regularly employed workers. Friends or Foe exposes the serious situation imposed by globalization on workers compelled to accept temporary status and provides critical analysis of the weaknesses of the current labor movement.