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PLDT Employees' Union Vs. Pldt Co. Free Tel. Workers' Union

PLDT EMPLOYEES' UNION, petitioner, vs. PHILIPPINE LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE COMPANY FREE TELEPHONE WORKERS' UNION, (PAPLU), respondents.

G.R. No. L-8138 | 1955-08-20

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J.:

On September 30, 1953, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, a public utility corporation locally organized, filed in the Court of Industrial Relations a petition for certificate under section 12 of Republic Act No. 875. It alleged that, a week before, it received from the Free Telephone Workers' Union notice of its desire to bargain collectively; that until the receipt of such notice, the Company believed the only legitimate labor organization existing therein was the PLDT Employees Union with which it had signed a collectively bargaining agreement still in operation; and that said Company was in...