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Phil. Long Distance Telephone Co. Vs. Phil. Long Distance Telephone Workers Union 091 Phil 550

PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE COMPANY, petitioner, vs. PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE WORKERS UNION (CLO) and JUAN L. LANTING, JOSE S. BAUTISTA, and V. JIMENEZ YAMSON, Judges of the Court of Industrial Relations, respondents.

G.R. No. L-4157 | 1952-07-08

D E C I S I O N


JUGO, J.:

Pedro Labitag had been working for several years for the petitioner Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, which hereinafter, for the sake of brevity, will be called the Company, as lineman helper, whose work mostly consisted in digging holes at the sides of the streets for posts. The company doctor made a physical examination of the employees and the workers of the Company. He found that Labitag was blind in the right eye and recommended his dismissal. The Company accordingly dismissed him. The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Workers' Union, which hereinafter will be called the Union, filed an urgent...