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    Lopez Sugar Corporation appealed a Department of Labor and Employment order granting a petition by the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines (NACUSIP) for a certification election among LSC's supervisory employees. LSC argued the petition lacked legal and factual basis. The Supreme Court ruled that while NACUSIP was a legitimate national labor organization, its local chapter representing the LSC supervisors did not establish it was a legitimate labor organization. As the local chapter's legitimacy was a requirement, the petition was dismissed. The Court found the Med-Arbiter and Secretary of Labor erred in ordering the election without confirming the local union's legitimacy.

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    Lopez Sugar Corporation appealed a Department of Labor and Employment order granting a petition by the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines (NACUSIP) for a certification election among LSC's supervisory employees. LSC argued the petition lacked legal and factual basis. The Supreme Court ruled that while NACUSIP was a legitimate national labor organization, its local chapter representing the LSC supervisors did not establish it was a legitimate labor organization. As the local chapter's legitimacy was a requirement, the petition was dismissed. The Court found the Med-Arbiter and Secretary of Labor erred in ordering the election without confirming the local union's legitimacy.

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    Lopez Sugar Corporation appealed a Department of Labor and Employment order granting a petition by the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines (NACUSIP) for a certification election among LSC's supervisory employees. LSC argued the petition lacked legal and factual basis. The Supreme Court ruled that while NACUSIP was a legitimate national labor organization, its local chapter representing the LSC supervisors did not establish it was a legitimate labor organization. As the local chapter's legitimacy was a requirement, the petition was dismissed. The Court found the Med-Arbiter and Secretary of Labor erred in ordering the election without confirming the local union's legitimacy.

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    Lopez Sugar Corp V Secretary Digest

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    Lopez Sugar Corporation appealed a Department of Labor and Employment order granting a petition by the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines (NACUSIP) for a certification election among LSC's supervisory employees. LSC argued the petition lacked legal and factual basis. The Supreme Court ruled that while NACUSIP was a legitimate national labor organization, its local chapter representing the LSC supervisors did not establish it was a legitimate labor organization. As the local chapter's legitimacy was a requirement, the petition was dismissed. The Court found the Med-Arbiter and Secretary of Labor erred in ordering the election without confirming the local union's legitimacy.

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    [G.R. No. 93117. August 1, 1995.] LOPEZ SUGAR CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. HON.

    SECRETARY OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT, NATIONAL CONGRESS OF UNIONS IN THE SUGAR INDUSTRY OF THE PHILIPPINES (NACUSIP) and COMMERCIAL AND AGRO-INDUSTRIAL LABOR ORGANIZATION (CAILO), respondents. FACTS -26 July 1989, private respondent National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the PhilippinesTUCP ("NACUSIP-TUCP") filed with the Department of Labor and Employment ("DOLE") a petition for direct certification or for certification election to determine the sole and exclusive collective bargaining representative of the supervisory employees of herein petitioner, Lopez Sugar Corporation. - NACUSIP-TUCP averred that it was a legitimate national labor organization; that LSC was employing 55 supervisory employees, the majority of whom were members of the union; that no other labor organization was claiming membership over the supervisory employees; that there was no existing collective bargaining agreement covering said employees; and that there was no legal impediment either to a direct certification of NACUSIP-TUCP or to the holding of a certification election. 1 - LSC contended, that the petition was bereft of any legal or factual basis; that the petition was nothing more than a useless scrap of paper designed to harass the company; and that its employees above the rank-and-file category were in truth unaware of the petition. -18 August 1989, the Commercial and Agro-Industrial Labor Organization also claiming to count substantial membership among the LSC supervisory employees, moved to intervene. - 22 August 1989, NACUSIP-TUCP submitted Charter Certificate No. 003-89, dated 20 July 1989, of the NACUSIP-TUCP Lopez Sugar Central Supervisory Chapter. 5 LSC, on its part, submitted a list of its employees above the rank-and-file status preparatory to the inclusion/exclusion proceedings. 6 - One Carlos S. Gevero, asserting a right to represent the "supervisors of LSC," filed a motion to dismiss the petition for lack of interest on the part of the supervisory employees. 7 - Med-Arbiter Felizardo T. Serapio issued an Order granting the petition. He ruled that under Article 257 of the Labor Code, as amended, the Med-Arbiter was left with no option but to order the conduct of a certification election immediately upon the filing of the petition, holding that the subsequent disaffiliation or withdrawals of members did not adversely affect the standing of the petition. The dispositive portion of his Order read: "VIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF THE FOREGOING, the petition for certification election among the supervisory employees of the Lopez Sugar Central, filed by the NACUSIP-TUCP is, as it is hereby GRANTED with the following choices: "1) "2) National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Phils. (NACUSIP-TUCP); Commercial and Agro-Industrial Labor Organization (CAILO);

    "3)

    No Union.

    - LSC appealed to the DOLE and asseverated that the order was a patent nullity and that the Med-Arbiter acted with grave abuse of discretion. 11 - Secretary of Labor ruled that the holding by the Med-Arbiter of a certification election is mandatory under Article 257 of the Labor Code; that the subsequent withdrawals and disauthorization/disaffiliation of some supervisory personnel in the petition for certification election could not bar its being granted; and that a certification election is still the most appropriate means to finally settle the issue of representation. - The Solicitor General agrees with public respondent in arguing that the tenor of Article 257 of the Labor Code is one of command. He cites paragraph 2, Section 6, Rule V, Book V, of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Labor Code, to the effect that once "a petition (is) filed by a legitimate organization involving an unorganized establishment, the Med-Arbiter shall immediately order the conduct of a certification election," which is designed, he continues, to give substance to the workers' right to self-organization. ISSUE 1. W/N Public Respondent Honorable Secretary of Labor and Employment (has) committed grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of jurisdiction when it refused to dismiss a petition for certification election despite clear lack of legal and factual basis for holding the same? 2. W/N the application of Article 257 clearly must first be occasioned by a genuine petition from a legitimate labor organization? HELD 1. The law did not reduce the Med-Arbiter to an automaton which can instantly be set to impulse by the mere filing of a petition for certification election. He is still tasked to satisfy himself that all the conditions of the law are met, and among the legal requirements is that the petitioning union must be a legitimate labor organization in good standing. 2. The petition for certification election was filed by the NACUSIP-TUCP, a national labor organization duly registered with the DOLE under Registration Certificate. The legitimate status of NACUSIP-TUCP might be conceded; being merely, however, an agent for the local organization (the NACUSIP-TUCP Lopez Sugar Central Supervisory Chapter), the federation's bona fide status alone would not suffice. The local chapter, as its principal, should also be a legitimate labor organization in good standing. - The only document extant on record to establish the legitimacy of the NACUSIP-TUCP Lopez Sugar Central Supervisory Chapter is a charter certificate and nothing else. The instant petition, at least for now, must thus be GRANTED. WHEREFORE, the assailed Decision of the Secretary of Labor, dated 06 March 1990, affirming that of the Med-Arbiter, is ANNULLED and SET ASIDE. The petition for certification election is dismissed. No costs. SO ORDERED.

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