In press statement submitted to Sun.Star Bacolod, Lute presented its registration RO601-0306-UR-001 issued by the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) in Western Visayas dated June 24, 2003.
Also, Lute’s legal personality was upheld by the Bureau of Labor Relations as resolved by no less than former labor secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas on May 18, 2004, the statement said.
The statement added, in coordination with its ‘mother’ organization, an all worker alliance, which is the Labor Power Council (LPC) - Negros LPC-LUTE filed petitions and motions for reconsideration with the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) 4th Division and Court of Appeals (CA), respectively.
LPC-LUTE, according to its statement, also questioned the allegations of TDI for rejecting its collective bargaining agreement (CBA) proposal which was considered unfair and unjustifiable labor practice at NLRC and CA.
Ruling in favor of TDI, the statement said that LPC-LUTE filed a 25-page petition to the Supreme Court in January 2007.
“The Supreme Court, the supposed last bastion of justice and democracy, made a travesty of justice by sustaining the decisions of NLRC and CA favoring TDI by answering the 25-page petition with a one page, three paragraph letter,” the statement said.
LPC-Lute sees serious legal implications and worst precedence of NLRC, CA and Supreme Court rulings, on future cases similar to this, the statement added.
In its final statement, “LPC-Negros and Lute calls on its members and sympathizers to condemn the oppressive practices of TDI to its workers. They likewise condemned the de-facto connivance if not outright subservience of NLRC to TDI, and the conspicuous bias of the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court in rendering decisions favorable to TDI while grossly disregarding the merits of Lute’s petition.”
