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Antamok Goldfields Labor Dispute Ruling

The workers at Antamok Goldfield Mining Company went on strike to demand higher wages and better working conditions. The company dismissed 45 workers for their involvement in a violent incident during the strike. The Court of Industrial Relations ordered the workers' reinstatement, finding that the company dismissed them without authorization. Antamok questioned the constitutionality of the law creating the CIR. The court upheld the law, finding that it was enacted to protect labor and enforce compulsory arbitration in industrial disputes, in line with the country's social policy of protecting interdependent societal groups against aggression between opposing interests like labor and capital.

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Antamok Goldfields Labor Dispute Ruling

The workers at Antamok Goldfield Mining Company went on strike to demand higher wages and better working conditions. The company dismissed 45 workers for their involvement in a violent incident during the strike. The Court of Industrial Relations ordered the workers' reinstatement, finding that the company dismissed them without authorization. Antamok questioned the constitutionality of the law creating the CIR. The court upheld the law, finding that it was enacted to protect labor and enforce compulsory arbitration in industrial disputes, in line with the country's social policy of protecting interdependent societal groups against aggression between opposing interests like labor and capital.

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[CASE DIGEST] Antamok Goldfields Mining Company v.

Court of Industrial Relations and


National Labor Union, Inc.

June 28, 1940 | G.R. No. 46892

Antamok Goldfields Mining Company, petitioner


Court of Industrial Relations and National Labor Union, Inc., respondents

FACTS: 

Workers of Antamok Goldfield Mining Company went on strike after their demands  for
higher wage and better working conditions, which were coursed through the National
Labor Union. were not granted in full. Because of their participation in a stoning
incident during the strike, 45 workers were dismissed.

The dispute was referred to the Court of Industrial Relations, which then ordered the
reinstatement of the 45 workers. The CIR ruled that the discharges and indefinite
suspensions were made by Antamok without first securing the consent of the CIR in
violation of a previous order enjoining them from discharging any laborer involved in
the dispute without just cause and without previous authority of the Court.

Antamok Goldfields Mining Company questioned the constitutionality of Commonwealth Act


No. 103, which created the CIR, on the ground that said law deprives them of liberty
and property without due process of law.

ISSUE:

Whether Commonwealth Act No 103 is constitutional.

Ruling:

Yes, In conformity with the constitutional objective and cognizant of the historical
fact that industrial and agricultural disputes had given rise to disquietude, bloodshed
and revolution in our country, the National Assembly enacted Commonwealth Act No. 103,
entitled “An Act to afford protection of labor by creating a Court of Industrial
Relations empowered to fix minimum wages for laborers and maximum rental to be paid by
tenants.

Analysis: to enforce compulsory arbitration between employers or landlords, and


employees or tenants, respectively; and by prescribing penalties for the violation of
the orders” and, later, Commonwealth Act No. 213, entitled, “An Act to define and
regulate legitimate labor organizations.”

Conclusion: Commonwealth Act Nos. 103 and 213 were enacted in pursuance of what appears
to be the deliberate embodiment of a new social policy, founded on the conception of a
society integrated not by independent individuals at dealing at arms’ length, but by
interdependent members of a consolidated whole whose interests must be protected
against mutual aggression and warfare among and between divers and diverse units which
are impelled by countervailing and opposite individual and group interests, and this is
particularly true in the relationship between labor and capital.

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