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ROWELL LABOR UNION-TRADE UNIONS OF THE PHIL. AND ALLIED SERVICES vs. HON. BLAS F. OPLE

ROWELL LABOR UNION-TRADE UNIONS OF THE PHILIPPINES AND ALLIED SERVICES (LOCAL CHAPTER NO. 569), petitioner, vs. HONORABLE BLAS F. OPLE, ROWELL WORKERS UNION-UOEF NO. 59; ROWELL INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-42270 | 1977-07-29

FERNANDO, J.:

It is the claim of petitioner labor union that on a showing of "an arbitrary denial and curtailment of the [freedom of the workers] to change their bargaining representative" 1 by respondent Secretary of Labor, 2 the Remedy of certiorari may be invoked. So it is. For as held in San Miguel Corporation v. Secretary of Labor, 3 the opinion being penned by Justice Aquino, a due process question arises. There would then be manifest a jurisdictional flaw in the administrative proceedings correctible by this Tribunal. Such is the contention pressed on this Court in assailing the order of January 9, 1975 of respondent Secretary of...