Practice question
A legitimate union has 250 members. Forty sign written consent for an otherwise proper sworn visitorial-finance complaint. Have they met the statutory twenty-percent support threshold?
- Yes; no written consent is required
- Yes; forty is twenty percent of 250
- Yes; one signature always suffices for this route
- No; at least fifty are required
- Yes; the employer can supply the missing worker consents
Legal references
- Labor Code, Article 289 (formerly 274), visitorial power over union finances: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- Labor Code, Article 250 (formerly 241), paragraphs (g)-(p), as applicable: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
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