About 5,000 sugar farm workers and 500 sugar mill workers of the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac, organised by the United Luisita Workers Union and the Central Azucarera de Tarlac Labor Union, went on strike on 6 November 2004 to demand, among other things, the reinstatement of 327 workers laid off by the Hacienda Luisita management. Police and military forces dispersed the picket on 16 November 2004, killing seven strikers and wounding at least 200; the Hacienda Luisita management's own Supreme Court pleadings record that the company ceased operations as a result of the strike. Survivors and victims' families have since campaigned for justice, and Rappler reported in 2016 that no trial had been held.