I. ERIKA JANE C. PROVIDO-MIRAFLOR, Juris Doctor, Block A, 09477903139
II. Case No. 1: Antamok Goldfields Mining Company vs. Court of Industrial Relations,
and National Labor Union, Inc., GR No. L-46892, June 28, 1940
III. Statement of the Issue: Whether the CIR has no right to interfere with the petitioner’s
right to select the men he wants to employ and that it is an exercise of is right which
should not be restrained or interfered with by the Court when it found that underground
laborers transferred to the 'outside' work are not wanting in experience, efficiency and
other conditions alleged to be found among the fresh laborers.
IV. Resolution of the Court: Yes. Although it is a management prerogative of an employer
to select men he wants to employ, the Court held in this case that, “when such judgment
is arbitrarily exercised to the prejudice of members of a labor union whose rights should
be safeguarded in consonance with the policies of the law, the Court not only feels it
justified but rightly its duty to interfere to afford protection to the laborers affected.”
V. Instruction Learned: Commonwealth Law No. 103 created a special court, the
Industrial Relations Tribunal. It has the power to issue its own regulations and to resolve
and decide disputes to prevent the deprivation of liberty and property without due law
process. It prescribes for the protection of the workers by virtue of the rights provided
under the Constitution.