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Shell Oil Workers' Union vs. Shell Company of the Philippines, et al.

SHELL OIL WORKERS' UNION, petitioner, vs. SHELL COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINES, LTD., and THE COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-28607 | 1971-05-31

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

The insistence on the part of respondent Shell Company of the Philippines to dissolve its security guard section, stationed at its Pandacan Installation, notwithstanding its being embraced in, and its continuance as such thus assured by an existing collective bargaining contract, resulted in a strike called by petitioner Shell Oil Workers' Union, hereinafter to be designated as the Union, certified a month later on June 27, 1967 by the President to respondent Court of Industrial Relations. Against its decision declaring the strike illegal primarily on the ground that such dissolution was a valid exercise of...