Practice question
The parties execute a five-year representation CBA. At the third-year economic renegotiation, they label a wage supplement a new five-year representation term and argue that it can automatically extinguish the statutory opportunity to challenge representation at the original term’s end. Which is best?
- Every economic supplement necessarily restarts representation forever
- The employer may always erase the freedom period by title
- The representation and economic aspects must be distinguished; relabeling a wage reopening cannot automatically defeat the statutory representation window
- A union president’s term controls the period
- Economic bargaining is prohibited before year five
Legal references
- Labor Code Article265[253-A]: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html
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