Practice question
A party invokes a signed but expressly unratified proposed CBA as a conclusive bar to the Secretary’s reasonably connected fact-finding measure. As in UIC, the required bargaining-unit ratification has not occurred. Which is best?
- Do not assume the proposed machinery is an effective CBA merely from the signatures; assess the ratification and actual legal setting.
- Every signed draft is conclusively a fully effective CBA for this purpose.
- Ratification can never matter.
- UIC permits ignoring every valid subsisting CBA.
- Any draft automatically withdraws all acquired jurisdiction.
Legal references
- University of the Immaculate Conception v. Office of the Secretary of Labor, G.R. Nos. 178085-178086, September 14, 2015, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/sep2015/gr_178085_2015.html
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