Five hundred union members at Tae Sung Philippines, a Korean-owned metal parts plant in the Cavite Economic Zone, struck for two days from 11 February 2015 after management refused to bargain collectively. They won a pay rise, extra leave and benefit packages and union recognition in an export zone known for a 'no-union, no-strike' policy. Three weeks later the union alleged that two members had been dismissed and six suspended in retaliation for the strike. The earlier seven months of union-busting is not dated precisely enough to set the conflict start earlier than the strike itself.