OPEIU shows up in force.

In the months that have followed, workers who have publicly voiced their support for the union have been systematically isolated, harassed and threatened with losing their jobs. One woman told me, "If you speak to the person sitting next to you, the supervisor gives you a warning." Another worker was moved from her workstation amidst other workers and isolated in the back of the factory against a wall, where she is unable to talk with anyone, apparently because she was considered pro-union. Workers report that the company institutes a pay scale where employees that do not publicly support the union and friends of the management are given raises and offered overtime work before others, regardless of performance or seniority.

I'm here calling for something that if achieved, will bring about a
terror already known to millions of children in the world 's richest
countries.

Homework.

It's not lost on me, as a product of the American educational
system, that's I'm here bending the ears of the elite about kids
getting to be somewhere I often made an excuse or feigned illness to
get out of attending as a child (To Mrs. Hoffman, if you're still
teaching 4th grade, I'm sorry. I was wrong. It turns out reading is
important.)

With Atty. Saladero’s release, it
will be hard for the Philippine government prosecutors to sustain the charges
against the other named in the criminal warrant. However, much will be
determined by the judge’s order, which not yet available to the public. The
language in the judge’s order will mean a lot in terms of ensuring that all
those who were named in the complaint for political reasons, including Manny
Asuncion, will be able to safely return to their families without fear of the
military coming to get them.

Here are two blog posts I wrote
about Atty. Saladero’s arrest last fall.