On 5 May 2014, a group of workers of Dutch chip company NXP in Cabuyao, the Philippines, was caught by surprise when they were pulled out of production and called into the manager’s office, where they received a letter of discharge and were escorted to the shuttle-bus.1 Soon, they had their pictures posted at the guards’ houses and their names written on a blacklist. According to the company, the workers participated in and encouraged illegitimate strikes when they did not come to work on April 9, 17 and 18, but according to the local union these were national holidays.2 For the union, the termination was a clear case of union-busting, because the dismissed workers were all union officers and part of the running collective bargaining negotiations.