In Re: American Electricity System

[OS-A-14-4-15. December 29, 2015.](RO3-RO-CE-37-12-29-14)IN RE: PETITION FOR DIRECT CERTIFICATION ELECTION AMONG ALL THE REGULAR RANK-AND-FILE EMPLOYEES OF AMERICAN ELECTRICITY SYSTEMAMERICAN ELECTRICITY SYSTEM EMPLOYEES UNION-SOLIDARITY OF UNIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND REFORMS (AESEU-SUPER), petitioner-appellant,AMERICAN ELECTRICITY SYSTEM, employer-appellee.DECISIONThis resolves the Memorandum of Appeal filed by American Electricity System Employees Union-Solidarity of Unions in the Philippines for Empowerment and Reforms from the Decision dated 18 March 2015 of DOLE-Region Office No. III Mediator-Arbiter Eladio L. de Jesus, the dispositive portion of which reads:WHEREFORE, PREMISES CONSIDERED, let the instant petition be, as it is hereby DISMISSED without prejudice for wanting of merit.SO ORDERED.The facts are as follows:On 29 December 2014, American Electricity System Employees Union-Solidarity of Unions in the Philippines for Empowerment and Reforms (AESEU-SUPER, for brevity) filed a petition for certification election among all the regular rank-and-file employees of American Electricity System (AES, for brevity) located at Bani, Masinloc, Zambales. 1 It alleged that the bargaining unit is composed of more or less seven hundred twenty (720) regular rank-and-file employees and averred that AES is unorganized...