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Arrastre Security Assoc, Tupas, et al. Vs. Blas F. Ople, et al.

ARRASTRE SECURITY ASSOCIATION — TUPAS, AGUSTIN TIBO and 350 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS, petitioners, vs. HON. BLAS F. OPLE, NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, GUACODS MARINE INC., E. RAZON INC., and ACTING DEPUTY CUSTOMS COMMISSIONER PEDRO MENDOZA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-45344 | 1984-02-20

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

This is a petition for certiorari to set aside the order and resolution of Minister of Labor Blas F. Ople denying the payment of backwages to the petitioners and the decision of the Ad Hoc National Labor Relations Commission considering them as temporarily laid off without compensation until their actual reinstatement. This petition is an offshoot of an unfair labor practice case.

The background facts of the case are not in dispute. In the words of the mediator-fact finder of the NLRC, they are:

"It appears that the Arrastre Security Association-TUPAS, ASA in short, is a duly registered labor...