A collective bargaining agreement, under the Labor Code,

serves as an agreement between the employer and the

employee. The agreement is binding to the parties and primarily
governs the terms and conditions for employment, dismissal,
suspension, benefits, and salaries. To put is simply, it is in the
Collective Bargaining Agreement, where the employer and the
employee have placed their concessions and agreements after a
process of negotiation. Having a completed Collective Bargaining
Agreement presupposes that there was a previous meeting or
sets of meetings that the employer and the employee undertook
to arrive, finally, at their agreement.
An added requirement is that the Department of Labor and
Employment may come in to facilitate the negotiation. Hence,
once completed, the Collective Bargaining Agreement is a
contract between the employer and employee.
If there are any doubts as to the proper interpretation of the
CBA, a Voluntary Arbiter designated, may provide the proper
interpretation.
It is for this reason that the suspension pursuantto Sec. 7.7
of the CBA should be upheld considering that an agreement
pertaining to the terms and conditions of the employment. The
CBA was finalized precisely for purposes of providing the proper
recourse for both the employer and the employee.