ARTICLE 266-271

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What are the methods of selecting the union that will bargain the employer?
What is certification election(C.E.)? who can petition for C.E.?
On what grounds may s petition for C.E. be denied?
Who votes in a C.E.
Is the employer a party to a C.E.?
ARTICLE 260-265
6. What si meant by duty of fair representation?
7. How is collective bargaining done? May the parties devise their own
procedure?
8. The prevailing practice is single enterprise bargaining. Is multi-employer
bargaing be allowed?
9. What are the elements of duty to bargain. Violation of which may constitute
ULP?
10.What are the compulsory and optional subjects of bargaining?
11.What are the requirements of valid ratification of a CBA?
12.When does CBA take effect? Up to when it is effective? May its life be
extended by non-renewal or by mutual agreement?
ART 259
13.What acts are ULP?
14.May a union charge with ULP another union in the same enterprise?
15.May a union member charge with UKLP his own union?
16.What is featherbedding? Is it featherbedding to object to the abolition of
certain jobs or positions in the company?
ART 258
17. What are ULP acts by an Employer?
18.A discrimination that is ULP
19.Is it ULP for an ER to contract out jobs being done by union members?
20.Is it ULP for an ER to favor a particular union?
21.Is it unlawful to compel EE to join a union?
ART 257
22. ULP is an act of abridgement which art. 256 prohibits. Is it ULP to stop a
protest action by ununionized EEs?
23. Under art 257, ULP is both civil and criminal offense. Why?
24. What are the elements of ULP as an offense?
ART 252-256
25. In the private and public sectors, who are the persons allowed and not
allowed to form or join labor org.?
26. What law governs labor relations in the public sector?
27. May govt EEs hold protest actions? May they go on strike legally?
28. In the private sector how does a manager differ from a supervisor?
29. Supervisors and rank-and-file EEs cannot join the same union. What happens
if they do?
30. Who are considered confidential EEs? May they join unions?
ART 250-251
31. What are the rights of the legitimate labor organization?
32. May a union, as representative, settle by compromise its members money
claims?

ART 249
33.What are the rights of union members?
34.When, how, and by whom are union officers be elected, impeached, or
removed?
35.May a union member seek the cancellation of his unions registration?
36.What is check-off? When may it properly be done?
ART 239-248
37.What are the requirements for organizing and registering a union?
38.What is a CBU? How does it differ from union?
39.What are union affiliation and what are its implications? May an affiliate
disaffiliate?
40.How do unions merge or consolidate?
41.On what grounds and upon whose petition may a unions registration be
cancelled?
ART 232-238
42. What kinds of cases fall within BLRs jurisdiction?
43. May labor standards violations be settled by compromise? How is done?
44. May such compromise be valid if the agreements sets terms lower than the
statutory standard?
45. Where, when, and how CBA registered?
ART 227-231
46. Technical rules are not strictly followed in proceedings before NLRC and the
Labor Arbiter. How is this rule reconciled with the requirement of procedural
due process?
47. How are compulsory arbitration cases heard and decided?
ART 225- 226
48. What are the powers of the NLRC?
49. Injunction is frowned upon in labor disputes. What are the pre-conditions
before injunction writ may be issued?
ART 220-224
50. What is NLRC?
51. Is NLRC independent of the DOLE?
52. How is NLRCs adjudicatory power disturbed?
ART 218-219
53. What are the policy objectives of our labor relations law?
54. EE-ER relationship must exist so that labor relations law may apply w/in an
enterprise. What factors determine the exercis eof such relationship?
55.What are considered labor disputes? What are the available remedies?