DECISION ' Heard the representative of Pakistan Trade Union Federation the applicants.
2. The Union was duly registerd earlier and its membership was confined to the workmen employed therein. Now an application has been made that the workmen of AcTO Laboratories would also be eligible to the same.
3. The dispute has a chequered history Nit shorn of all unnecessary details suffice it to say that the application was rejected by the registrar and an appeal was preferred before the Labour Court which also came to be dismissed. Hence this Revision application.
4. It has been alleged that these two companies have got a common canteen, the services of the workmen are also interchangeable from one to the other and some of the Directors were also common.
5. However it is an admitted position that both of these arc separately incorporated and, therefore, distinct juristic persons in law. There is no bar that Director of one company cannot simulaneously be the Director of another company. Even their activities and productions are different. Mercantile, Industries (Pvt.) Limited manufacturers 'dry cells' while the latter is dealing in `pharmaceutical products'. Under subsection 2(a) of section 7 of the 1.R.O. 'all the workmen in a trade union must be actually engaged or employed in the Industry with which the trade union is connected'.
6. Under the circumstances the impugned order, is not open to challenge and the amendment in constitution has been properly refused by the Registrar.
7. The Revision Application is summarily dismissed.