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Tupas Local Chapter No. 979, et al. Vs. National Relations Commission, et al.

TUPAS LOCAL CHAPTER NO. 979 (R.S. CARLOS WORKERS UNION) and 44 REGULAR WORKERS, petitioners, vs. NATIONAL RELATIONS COMMISSION, R.S. CARLOS GENERAL ENTERPRISES, and SONEL L. LABAO, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-60532-33 | 1985-11-05

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J.:

This is an action of certiorari filed by petitioner union and its forty-four (44) petitioners-workers from the decision of public respondent National Labor Relations Commission. Respondent commission in its questioned decision of April 23, 1982 affirmed the decision of Labor Arbiter Ricarte T. Soriano dated March 31, 1981 that the said workers staged a one-day "illegal strike" on August 19, 1980, and ordered the dismissal of all 44 workers, except eleven who were ordered reinstated without backwages but without loss of seniority rights. 1 On appeal, respondent commission, however, modified the arbiter's...