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Independent Sagay-Escalante Planters, Inc. Vs. National Labor Relations Commission

INDEPENDENT SAGAY-ESCALANTE PLANTERS, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, Fourth Division, Cebu City and ALFREDO SUMIDO, JULIO PANER, MELQUIADES BACAN and RAFAEL IGNACIO for themselves and in representation of all plantation workers in the LOPEZ MILL DISTRICT, respondents.

G.R. No. 100926 | 1992-03-13

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

The private respondents in this case are sugarcane Plantation workers of Hacienda Tinago, situated at Fabrica, Negros Occidental. In 1983, they instituted a class suit on behalf of all sugar Plantation workers of the Lopez Mill District, directed against all sugar Planters therein and the Lopez Sugar Corporation which operated the sugar central or mill and refinery serving the Lopez Mill District before Regional Arbitration Branch No. 6 of the Department of Labor and Employment, Bacolod City. 1

Private respondents sought to recover the sixty per cent (60%) share of the laborers in the increased deliveries...