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Tabangao Shell Refinery Employees Association Vs. Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation

TABANGAO SHELL REFINERY EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, vs. PILIPINAS SHELL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Respondent.

G.R. No. 170007 | 2014-04-07

 

DECISION


LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, J.:

 

This an appeal from the Decision 1 dated August 8, 2005 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 88178 dismissing the petition for certiorari of the petitioner Tabangao Shell Refinery Employees Association.  

The origins of the controversy


In anticipation of the expiration on April 30, 2004 of the 2001-2004 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the petitioner and the respondent Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation, the parties started negotiations for a new CBA. After several meetings on the ground rules that would govern the negotiations and on political...