An 80-man legal team At the end of 2000, RCA Taiwan, then owned by Thomson, relayed to the Ministry of Economic Affairs its plan to reduce its investments in Taiwan. After the news came out, the MAA and social activists went on the alert, because if Thomson extracted RCA assets from Taiwan, it would become even more difficult to get compensation.
80 人訴訟大軍受限於舉證的困難度，公權力無法為 RCA 勞工討回公道，此時社會的關切也逐漸冷淡下來。2000 年底，RCA 向經濟部提出減資計劃，新聞傳出後，自救會與社運團體警覺，一旦 RCA 撤出在台資金，求償將更困難，必須速謀出路。