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Gelmart Industries Phils vs. Nat'l Labor Rel. Comm.

GELMART INDUSTRIES PHILIPPINES, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and NATIONAL UNION OF GARMENTS, TEXTILES, CORDAGE AND ALLIED WORKERS OF THE PHILIPPINES (GATCORD), respondents.

G.R. No. 53824 | 1989-06-29

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

In the present Petition for Certiorari with prayer for preliminary injunction, petitioner seeks to set aside the decision dated 22 April 1980 of public respondent National Labor Relations Commission ("NLRC") in NLRC Case No. RB-IV-13275-77 which had modified the decision of the Labor Arbiter dated 13 September 1978, by awarding backwages to sixty-three (63) employees and former employees of petitioner.

Petitioner is an export-oriented, labor-intensive enterprise employing about 8,000 workers. On 1 August 1977, petitioner's workers, who are members of private respondent National Union of Garments,...