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Confederation of Citizens Labor Unions, et al. vs. Carmelo C. Noriel, et al.

CONFEDERATION OF CITIZENS LABOR UNIONS (CCLU) and PACIFIC KNITTING WORKERS' ORGANIZATION, petitioners, vs. CARMELO C. NORIEL, as Director of Bureau of Labor Relations, PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF FREE LABOR UNIONS, VICENTE ARNIEGO, LUZON FEDERATION OF LABOR ORGANIZATION, FUR CHAPTER, (LFLO-FUR) and PACIFIC MILLS, INC. respondents.

G.R. No. L-46933 | 1980-06-30

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J.:

An order by respondent Director Noriel 1 allowing the inclusion of respondent Union, Philippine Association of Free Labor Unions (PAFLU) to participate in a certification election, 2 is assailed in this certiorari and prohibition proceeding as amounting to a grave abuse of discretion. It was objected to on the ground that the motion to do so by such union "came too late for the order calling for a certification election has already become final without an appeal interposed by any party." 3 His order was justified by respondent Noriel thus: "It may not be disputed that the order calling for an election has...