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GREPALIFE Union vs GREPALIFE, Arbiter Mayor, NLRC

GREAT PACIFIC LIFE EMPLOYEES UNION and RODEL P. DE LA ROSA, petitioners, vs. GREAT PACIFIC LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LABOR ARBITER JOVENCIO LL. MAYOR JR. and NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION (THIRD DIVISION), respondents

G.R. No. 126717 | 1999-02-11

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

GREAT PACIFIC LIFE EMPLOYEES UNION and Great Pacific Life Assurance Corporation entered sometime in 1990 into a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) to take effect 1 July 1990 until 30 June 1993.

On 18 May 1993, or about a month and a half before the expiration of the CBA, the parties submitted their respective proposals and counter-proposals to serve as bases for their discussions on its projected renewal. The ensuing series of negotiations however resulted in a deadlock prompting petitioner Great Pacific Life Employees Union (UNION hereon) on 23 September 1993 to file a notice of strike with the...