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U.E Automotive Employees and Workers Union,et al vs. Noriel,et al.

U.E. AUTOMOTIVE EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS UNIONTRADE UNIONS OF THE PHILIPPINES AND ALLIED SERVICES, petitioners, vs. CARMELO C. NORIEL, PHILIPPINE FEDERATION OF LABOR, AND U. E. AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING CO., INC., respondents.

G.R. No. L-44350 | 1976-11-25

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

It is a notable feature of our Constitution that freedom of association is explicitly ordained; 1 it is not merely derivative, peripheral or penumbral, as is the case in the United States. 2 It can trace its origin to the Malolos Constitution. 3 More specifically, where it concerns the expanded rights of labor under the present Charter, it is categorically made an obligation of the State to assure full enjoyment "of workers to self-organization [and] collective bargaining." 4 It would be to show less than full respect to the above mandates of the fundamental law, considering that petitioner union obtained the...