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1987 Constitution
Sec. 3, Article XIII provides:
"The State shall promote the principle of shared responsibility between workers and employers and the preferential use of voluntary modes in settling disputes, including conciliation, and shall enforce their mutual compliance therewith to foster industrial peace."
Labor Code, as amended by Republic Act 6715
Article 211 of the Code provides, among others:
(a) "...It is the policy of the State...to promote and emphasize the primacy of free collective bargaining and negotiations, including voluntary arbitration, mediation and conciliation, as modes of settling labor or industrial disputes."
(b) "To provide an adequate administrative machinery for the expeditious settlement of labor or industrial disputes."

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