
These anomalies created anxiety in the Union which continued to prevail in the following years.


It was further asserted that instead of proceeding with said strike, the Union officers and the officers of its national office thereafter mysteriously signed the CBA without consulting the general membership of the local chapter. Petitioners claim that the signing of that CBA by the Union officers, headed by one Rudolpho Genato, and representatives of the Hotel was tainted with irregularities, prompting the Union to file a notice of strike on the ground of a CBA deadlock. The rank and file employees union, representing approximately 800 employees of the Hotel, was the herein Union which entered into a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the Hotel on December 15, 1991. The principal parties involved in this labor dispute are petitioner National Union of Workers in Hotels, Restaurants and Allied Industries (NUWHRAIN)- The Peninsula Manila Chapter (the Junta, for brevity) the NUWHRAIN - The Peninsula Manila Rank and File Chapter (the Union, for short) and private respondent, The Peninsula Manila (hereafter, the Hotel). It likewise seeks to set aside the resolution of the NLRC, dated March 28, 1996, denying the motion for reconsideration filed by petitioners. DECISION REGALADO, J.,: This is a special civil action for certiorari seeking to set aside the decision of public respondent National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), dated February 7, 1996, which affirmed the Novemorder of the med-arbiter holding that the strike held by petitioners on October 13 was illegal and declaring the 15 officers who knowingly participated in the strike to have lost their employment status. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and THE PENINSULA MANILA, respondents. March 6, 1998] NATIONAL UNION OF WORKERS IN HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES (NUWHRAIN) THE PENINSULA MANILA CHAPTER (Interim Union Junta), MELVIN COWAN, SERAFIN TRIA, JR., PORFERIO YAPE, LINDA GALVEZ, BENJAMIN ESTEVES, LUTHER ADIGUE and RAYMUNDO VANCE, petitioners, vs.
