Practice question
Government personnel invoke the constitutional right to self-organization. Does that right alone necessarily supply a right to strike in the civil service?
- No; SSS Employees Association distinguishes the rights
- Yes; organization and strike are invariably identical
- Yes; ArticleIXB expressly grants every strike
- Yes; all government services must stop on request
- Yes; public-sector law becomes irrelevant
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html ArticleXIII Section3; ArticleIXB Section2(5).
- SSS Employees Association v Court of Appeals GR85279 July28,1989 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1989/jul1989/gr_85279_1989.html Government self-organization distinguished from strike.
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