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Gallego v Kapisanan Timbulan ng mga Manggagawa Facts: Respondents are members of Kapisanan Timbulan ng mga Manggagawa, an organization of tenants and farm laborers duty registered in accordance with law. They alleged that their members who by mean of threat intimidation fraud and deceit taking advantage of the ignorance of the tenants are forced to enter into contracts the provisions of which are against laws and public policy and that the non-settlement of the controversy arising therefrom will cause an agrarian disorder among the peasantry Issue: Is the Union enough to give said organization legal personality for purposes of filing the complaint with the court of Industrial Relation?

Held: The existence of labor union is necessary development of the industrial revolution and is recognized as one of the effective mean by which laborers may obtain protection to their right and privileges social justice within an economic set-up dominated by capitalism and vindicate the laborer's just claims to human dignity and his due share in the benefits accruing in the interplay of the modern social system of production distribution and consumption