Kamada Vs - Ferrer - Calleja

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De los Santos, Lara Aurea L.

4- Manresa

G.R. No. 104692 September 5, 1997


KATIPUNAN NG MGA MANGGAGAWA SA DAUNGAN (KAMADA), petitioner, vs.
HON. PURA FERRER-CALLEJA and ASSOCIATED SKILLED AND TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES UNION
(ASTEUO), respondents.

Facts:

Petitioner Katipunan ng mga Manggagawa sa Daungan (KAMADA) claims to be the sole and
exclusive bargaining agent for all workers in Ocean Terminal Services, Inc. (OTSI). After a
certification election, it concluded a collective bargaining agreement with the company. Soon
thereafter, in September 1990, private respondent union (ASTEUO) — allegedly composed also
of OTSI workers — was registered.

Petitioner KAMADA filed a suit to cancel the registration of ASTEUO on the ground that the
latter's members were already covered by the existing collective bargaining agreement. Private
respondent, on the other hand, claimed that its existence as a union could not be disturbed, as
its registration was made during the freedom period when there was no collective bargaining
agreement concluded as yet.

Private respondent's registration was cancelled by the med-arbiter in his resolution dated
November 27, 1990, finding that the "organization of another union covering the same workers
call no longer be considered as a labor protective [sic] activity under P.D. 1391"7 and that "this
will even be against the present policy of one union in one company."

Issue:

Whether or not there was already an existing certified bargaining agent when respondent
obtained its registration.

Ruling:

Section 3, Rule V, Book V of the Omnibus Rules Implementing the Labor Code, prohibits not the
registration of a new union but the holding of a certification election "within one year from the
dare of issuance of a final certification election result. Clearly, private respondent's registration
is not covered by the prohibition. In any event, the union registration was effected in
September 1990, a month before the secretary of labor issued his decision on the result of the
certification election on October 31, 1990. Hence, there was yet no certified bargaining agent
when the private respondent was registered as a union.

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