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Riviera Tech Manufacturing, Inc. employs 540 workers. Management creates a company-run 'Workplace Council for Negotiations' (WCN) and appoints its leadership; WCN meets on company premises during working hours and proclaims itself the sole legitimate workers’ association. A separate organization, the 'Riviera Workers Union' (RWU), forms with 140 members to press for collective bargaining. The company refuses to recognize RWU and initiates transfers of RWU members to less favorable shifts. Analyze: (a) Identify the controlling doctrine governing unions, workers' associations, and legitimate workers' associations under Philippine law. (b) Distinguish RWU (a union) from WCN (a company-run workplace council); explain the criteria for when a workers' association is legitimate and not a device to bypass union rights. (c) Apply to the facts: Is WCN a legitimate workers' association? Are the company’s actions an unfair labor practice or interference with the right to self-organization? What remedies are available to RWU and the workers?

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Management may lawfully require workers to join the company-run council as a condition of employment; the right to self-organization does not override managerial prerogatives. A workers’ association can be legitimate even if management appoints its leaders, as long as workers freely consent to participate and the body operates with autonomy from management. The legal standard requires formal registration with a government agency for protected status; unregistered groups have no standing. The controlling doctrine is that unions and legitimate workers’ associations must be independent of management; a company-run body controlled by management is not a legitimate workers’ association, so RWU should be recognized; the employer’s acts constitute unfair labor practices with remedies including a certification election, recognition of RWU, and restoration of affected workers with back pay and damages.

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