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Atlas Free Workers Union-PSSLU Local vs. Carmelo C. Noriel

ATLAS FREE WORKERS UNION (AFWU) - PSSLU LOCAL, petitioner, vs. HON. CARMELO C. NORIEL, in his capacity as Director of Labor Relations, Ministry of Labor, and ASSOCIATED LABOR UNIONS (ALU), respondents.

G.R. No. L-51905 | 1981-05-26

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J:

This is a petition for certiorari and mandamus brought by petitioner union against respondent Director of Labor Relations to set aside respondent's order to remand the case to the Med-Arbiter or Office of Origin (Regional Office No. VII, Cebu City) for further hearing and reception of evidence instead of granting the petitioner union's petition filed since December 14, 1978 for the holding of a certification election.

The Court resolves to grant the petition in line with the liberal approach consistently adhered to by this Court in matters of certification election. The whole democratic process is geared...