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Phil., Air Lines Employees' Association vs. Court of Industrial Relations

PHILIPPINE AIR LINES EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION (PALEA), VICENTE S. BALAJADIA, President, and JOSE QUINTANA, Vice President, petitioners, vs. COURT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, PHILIPPINE AIR LINES, INC. and EMILIO F. SA?O, respondents.

G.R. No. L-26063 | 1976-11-29

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

It was the refusal of respondent Court of Industrial Relations, now replaced by the National Labor Relations Commission under the present Labor Code, to grant a motion to dismiss 1 filed by petitioner Union, the Philippine Air Lines Employees' Association (PALEA), 2 on the ground of lack of jurisdiction that led to this certiorari and prohibition proceeding. The matter involved an intra-union dispute between petitioner and the group within such labor organization, headed by private respondent, Emilio F. Saño, who claimed that he was the duly elected President. The jurisdiction of the now-defunct...