Back

Fil. Pipe Workers Union vs D.M. Batario, Jr. Etal.

FILIPINO PIPE WORKERS UNION [NLU], petitioner, vs. JUDGE DEMETRIO M. BATARIO, JR. of the Regional Trial Court and FILIPINO PIPE AND FOUNDRY CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-75851 | 1988-07-29

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, C.J.:

Sometime in 1981, a labor dispute between the Filipino Pipe and Foundry Corporation [COMPANY] and the Filipino Pipe Workers Union [Union] resulting from a deadlock in collective bargaining negotiations over vacation and sick leaves, wage increase and retirement gratuity, was certified for compulsory arbitration before the Manila arbitration branch of the then Ministry of Labor and Employment. 1

On March 19, 1981, Labor Arbiter Cornelio Linsangan rendered his decision, later amended on May 20, 1981, "ordering the parties to conclude a collective bargaining agreement containing provisions they have...