Free Telephone Workers Union vs Minister of Labor FACTS: Petitioners Trade Unions of the Philippines and Allied Services

and National Federation of Labor Unions, in this prohibition and mandamus proceeding, for themselves and on behalf of the forty- two affiliates of the Pambansang Koalisyon ng Mga Manggagawa Laban sa Kahirapan, assail the constitutionality of Section 6 of Article III of Batas Pambansa Blg. 697.