On 27 February 2019, Musahamat Workers Labor Union's president Esperidion Cabaltera, vice president Richard Genabe, and secretary Ronald Rosales were taken from their home by unidentified armed men. Prior to this incident Cabaltera and Genabe filed a complaint at the police station about alleged military harassment. The day before the arbitrary arrest, military agents forcibly entered their home. The farmworkers were released one day after their detention. They were interrogated and forced to sign a confession claiming that they were New People’s Army (NPA) surrenderees. The union is working to improve working conditions and wages in the banana plantation owned by Musahamat farm. Musahamat is a Kuwait-based multinational firm engaged in export of bananas and other fruits. The union complained in 2016 about a vilification campaign against them linking the union to the NPA.