ADMINISTRATIVE - BASED STATISTICS ON ACTUAL STRIKES AND NOTICES FILED
Agency Responsible / National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB)
Frequency / Weekly for national/regional data
Disaggregation / Geographic Area: National/Regional
Availability / From 1988
Dissemination /
Two (2) weeks after reference period for weekly and monthly data
Definition of Terms / any controversy or matter concerning terms or conditions of employment or the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or arranging the terms and conditions of employment regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relationship of employers and employees. It includes collective bargaining agreement deadlock, labor standards case, actual strike/ lockout, strike/lockout notice, med-arbitration case, arbitration case, adjudication case, request for conciliation, preventive mediation but excludes illegal recruitment case. Also known as industrial dispute.
/ the notification filed by a duly registered labor union with respective NCMB regional branches about its intention to go on strike because of alleged commission by the employer of unfair labor practice acts or because of deadlock in collective bargaining negotiations.
/ any temporary stoppage of work by the concerted action of employees as a result of an industrial/labor dispute. This may includeslowdown, mass leave, attempts to damage, destroy or sabotage plant equipment and facilities and similar activities.
a. Boycott - concerted action by employees and their union to refrain from working with the establishment.
b. Mass Leave - a form of concerted work stoppage by which the union or the workers avail en masse of the paid leaves under their Collective Bargaining Agreement or by law or where said workers/union go on a massive Absence Without Official Leave (AWOL).
c. Sitdown - a form of concerted work stoppage in which workers refuse to work inside a factory or establishment after punching their time cards.
d. Slowdown - a deliberate lessening of work effort for definite purpose and time. In motive, it is similar to a strike and differs from the latter only in the degree of stoppage involved.
/ the temporary refusal of an employer to furnish work to his employees as a result of an industrial or labor dispute. It comprises shutdown, mass retrenchment and dismissal without previous written clearance from the Secretary of Labor and Employment or his duly authorized representatives.
/ total number of man-days lost due to strikes or lockouts declared. It is computed by multiplying the number of workers involved in the strike or lockout by the total number of working days lost or idled due to strike/lockout.
/ pending cases at the beginning of a specific period plus new cases filed during the period.
/ notices of strikes resolved during a specified period. It is the sum total of all strike notices settled, assumed jurisdiction by the Secretary, certified for compulsory arbitration and strike notices that materialized into actual strikes and lockouts.
/ actual strikes/lockouts resolved for a specified period. It is the sum total of all actual strikes settled, assumed jurisdiction by the Secretary, certified for compulsory arbitration, and actual strikes referred for compulsory arbitration.
/ the proportion (in percent) of the total cases disposed to the total number of cases handled.
- Preventive Mediation Cases
/ subject of a formal or informal request for conciliation and mediation assistance sought by either or both parties to avoid the occurrence of actual labor dispute.
/ the mode of settling labor-management disputes by which the parties select a competent, trained and impartial person who shall decide on the merits of the case and whose decision is final, executory and unappealable.
- Workers Involved in Actual Strike/Lockout
/ workers directly involved in a strike/lockout and those made idle or affected by lack of work or by observance of picket line.
/ an actual or existing labor dispute which is subject of a notice of strike/lockout or actual strike/lockout case filed with appropriate National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) regional branches.
/ mode of settlement bringing together the two parties in a dispute to come to negotiations and settlement of the dispute.
