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    The document discusses a case between Golden Farms Inc. and the Secretary of Labor regarding a petition by the Progressive Federation of Labor union to hold a certification election for Golden Farms' monthly paid office and technical employees. Golden Farms argued the employees should be included in an existing collective bargaining agreement. The court ultimately allowed the separate certification election for the monthly paid employees.

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    GR No.

    102130 July 26, 1944

    GOLDEN FARMS VS SECRETARY OF LABOR AND PFL

    FACTS:

    Petitioner Golden Farms, Inc., is a corporation engaged in the production and marketing
    of bananas for export. On February 27, 1992, private respondent Progressive Federation of
    Labor (PFL) filed a petition before the Med-Arbiter praying for the holding of a certification
    election among the monthly paid office and technical rank-and-file employees of petitioner
    Golden Farms. Petitioner moved to dismiss claiming that PFL failed to show that it organized a
    chapter within the petitioner establishment, that there was already an existing CBA between
    the rank and file employees represented by NFL and petitioner, and that the employees
    represented by PFL are disqualified by the courts.

    PFL countered that the monthly-paid office workers and technical employees should be
    allowed because they were expressly excluded from the coverage of the CBA between
    Petitioner and NFL. Petitioner argued that the subject employees shoull have joined the
    existing CBA if they are not managerial employees. On April 18,1991, the Med-Arbiter ordered
    the conduct of the certification elections. Petitioner appealed to the Secretary of Labor which
    the LabSec denies the appeal for lack of merit.

    ISSUE:

    WON the Monthly Paid rank and file employee can constitute a bargaining unit separate from
    the existing bargaining units of its daily-paid rank and file employees

    HELD: Wherefore, Petition dismissed for lack of merit.

    RATIO:

    Yes, the Monthly Paid office and technical rank and file employee of the petitioner enjoy
    constitutional rights to self organization and collective bargaining. The duties of the monthly
    paid employees primarily administrative and clerical which is of different nature from daily paid
    employees whose main work is the cultivation of bananas. To be sure, the monthly paid group
    have even been excluded from the bargaining unit of the daily paid rank and file employees.

    In the case of UP vs Ferrer-Calleja, the SC sanctioned the formation of 2 separate


    bargaining units within the establishment. Finally, the SC note that it was Petitioner company
    that filed the motion to dismiss the petition for election violating the general rule that the
    employer has no standing to question a certification election since this is the so that the
    employer has no standing to question a certification election since this is the sole concerns of
    the workers (Bystander Rule)

    Our decision in Golden Farms, Inc., vs. Honorable Pura Ferrer-Calleja, op. cit., does not pose any obstacle
    in holding a certification election among petitioner's monthly paid rank-and-file employees. The issue
    brought to fore in that case was totally different, i.e., whether or not petitioner's confidential employees,
    considering the nature of their work, should be included in the bargaining unit of the daily paid rank-and-file
    employees. In the case at bench, the monthly paid rank-and-file employees of petitioner are
    being separated as a bargaining unit from its daily paid rank-and-file employees, on the ground that they
    have different interest to protect. The principle of res judicata is,therefore, inapplicable.

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