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Benguet Exploration Miner's Union vs. Noriel, et al

BENGUET EXPLORATION MINERS' UNION, petitioner, vs. HON. CARMELO C. NORIEL, Director of the Bureau of Labor Relations, Atty. ERUDITO E. LUNA, Med-Arbiter Designate of Labor Relations Division, Baguio City and NATIONAL MINES AND ALLIED WORKERS' UNION (NAMAW

G.R. No. L-44110 | 1977-03-29

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

The decisive issue raised in this certiorari proceeding by petitioner labor union is whether the Bureau of Labor Relations, its Director, Carmelo C. Noriel, and one of its Med-Arbiters, Erudito E. Luna, being named as respondents, possessed jurisdiction to entertain a petition for certification election filed by private respondent Union. Moreover, a grave abuse of discretion was imputed to such respondent officials, when instead of deciding with finality a motion to dismiss such petition for certification, they merely ordered that it should remain part of the records of the case to be considered in its final...