At the end of April 2023, Filipino labour leader Alex Dolorosa was stabbed and killed. The circumstances surrounding his murder remain unclear. Dolorosa was working in a call centre where he became an active member of his union, the BPO Industry Employees Network Philippines (BIEN), an affiliate of UNI Global Union.

Dolorosa and other BIEN members had, for several years, received threats. They had been victims of ‘red-tagging’, the blacklisting of those who oppose the government – a system which sends a signal to government and security officials, and also to employers and private citizens, that red tags are targets.