Four out of the twenty Karnation workers are still detained despite the Rizal Regional Trial Court’s (RTC) decision to grant bail last November 20, 2009.

At the dusk of Arroyo’s nine-year presidency, human rights violations against workers and trade unions heighten.  Four unionists, workers and advocates were murdered, one tortured to death this year, five were abducted and remain missing and thousands were harassed and threatened since she assumed presidency in 2001.