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Vassar Industries Inc vs V.I. Employees Union etal.

VASSAR INDUSTRIES, INC., petitioner, vs. VASSAR INDUSTRIES EMPLOYEES UNION (VIEU) and/or DANILO ORDO?EZ, President, and LABOR ARBITER CORNELIO L. LINSANGAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 76883 | 1989-09-07

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

A collective bargaining agreement was entered on October 1, 1978 between Vassar Industries, Inc. (hereafter, simply Vassar) and the Vassar Industries Employees Union (hereafter, simply the Union). The agreement stipulated a term of three (3) years and, among other things, obliged

1) Vassar ". . . to grant a general wage increase of P15.00 a month for each employee covered by the agreement," and

2) Vassar and the Union to re-negotiate "on salary increases on the second and third year of . . (the) agreement."

In 1980, the third year of the agreement and as stipulated thereby, the parties re-negotiated on...