The retrospective history of the working class in the Philippines

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Reaffirming the Struggle for Working People's Rights and Freedoms: Celebrating the Philippine Labor Centennial
Alliance of Progressive Labor, 2 July 2002. The year 2002 marks the centennial anniversary of the founding of the first trade union federation in the Philippines—Unión Obrera Democrática (UOD), On 2 February 1902, amidst the massive repression imposed by the American invasion forces, some 150 voting delegates, in the presence of an even larger number of non-delegates, met in Manila to form the UOD.
An honest man
ABS-CBM, Thursday 7 August 2003. The tragedy of the Philippine labor movement has been that too many of its leaders were easily bought. Not so was Felixberto Ka Bert Olalia (August 5, 1904–December 4, 1983). He worked with veteran union leaders like Crisanto Evangelista—the father of the Philippine trade union movement.
New book on Philippine labor
From Kim Scipes, 10 October 1996. A book on the radical wing of the Philippine labor movementL: Kim Scipes, 1996. KMU: Building genuine trade unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day Publishers.