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Foitaf-Assoiated vs. Noriel

FEDERACION OBRERA DE LA INDUSTRIA TABAQUERA Y OTROS TRABAJADORES DE FILIPINAS (FOITAF-ASSOCIATED ANGLO AMERICAN CHAPTER), petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE CARMELO NORIEL, in his capacity as Director of the Bureau of Labor Relations, all officers acting in

G.R. No. L-41937 | 1976-07-06

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

An order of respondent Carmelo Noriel, Director of the Bureau of Labor Relations, 1 for the holding of a certification election is assailed in this certiorari proceeding for its alleged failure to comply with the thirty percent requirement of the new Labor Code. 2 It is admitted by petitioner labor union that there were enough signatures but it is contended that there was a change of mind on the part of a number of the employees involved resulting in the requirement of the law not being met. There is thus, so it is submitted, a grave abuse of discretion amounting to arbitrariness. Respondent public official...