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TOYOTA MOTOR PHIL. CORP vs. TOYOTA MOTOR PHIL. CORP LABOR UNION
(1997)
FACTS:
Toyota Motor Phil Corp. Labor Union filed a petition for certification
election with Dept. of Labor, for all rank-and- file employees of the
petitioner Toyota Motor Corp.
file employees of the petitioner
Toyota Motor Corp.Petitioner seek the denial of the holding of thecertifica
tion election on 2 grounds:
(1) the union, being process of registration had no legal personality
to file the same as it was not a legitimate labor organization at the
time the petition was file; and
(2) that the union was composed of both rank and-file and supervisory
employees in the violation of the law. The Med-Arbiterdismissed the
petition
for
certification
election
in
favour
with the grounds stated by petitioner. However, on
appeal,
the
Secretary of Labor set aside the decision of the Med-Arbiter and
ordered the holding of the certification election contending that the
union was already a legitimate labor organization at the time of the
filing of the petition evidenced by a certification of registration.
Issue:
Whether the Secretary of Labor committed grave abuse of discretion in
directing the certification election
Held: YES. Petition Granted.
A labor organization composed of both rank-and-file and supervisory
employees is no labor organization at all. It cannot, for any guise or
purpose,
be
a
legitimate
labororganization. Not being one, an organization whichcarries a mixture
of rank-and-file and supervisoryemployees cannot possess any of the right
s of alegitimate labor organization, including the right to file a
petition for certification election for the purpose of collective bargaining.
In the given case, as respondent union's membership list contains the
names
of
at
least
27
supervisory
employeesin Level Five positions, the union could not, prior topurging
itself of its supervisory employee members, attain the status of a
legitimate labor organization. Not being one, it cannot possess the
requisite personality to file a petition for certification election. The union's
composition being in violation of the Labor Code's Prohibition of unions
composed
of
supervisory
and
rank-and-file
employees,
itcould not possess the requisite personality to file forrecognition
as
a
legitimate labor organization.

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