The DLTB Labor Union – PTGWO won via landslide in the voting for the Certification Elections in the Del Monte Land Transport and Bus Company (DLTB) concluded last April 8, 2015. 

The DLU-PTGWO union is an affiliate of the Philippine Trade and General Workers Organization (PTGWO), the biggest labor federation in the country. The 63-year old federation counts around a hundred affiliate unions in almost all industries, including transport, food, beverage, steel, mining, manufacturing, petroleum, banking, universities, garments, electricity and water utilities. 
 
DLU-PTGWO garnered almost 2/3 of the total votes cast for the uncontested voters. It received a total of 513 votes, or 231 votes higher than the local union of the second placer, AGLO. There were around 290 segregated votes, mostly contested by the losing contender, and were therefore expected to be votes for DLU-PTGWO.

The PTGWO would just be awaiting the formal proclamation of DLU-PTGWO by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) as the certified bargaining agent of the DLTB, an emerging provincial bus transport company plying the Metro Manila to Southern Luzon, Bicol and Visayas routes. In just around 4 years of operations, the number of employees of DLTB, including bus divers, conductors, mechanics, inspectors and office workers, has ballooned to almost 2,000. Soon, these rank and file employees of DLTB would benefit from industrial peace and the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that the union would enter into with its management. 

Atty. Arnel Z. Dolendo, PTGWO National President, was very pleased with the outcome of the certification elections. He mentioned that it was a consequence of the campaign for responsible trade unionism by Team DLU-PTGWO led by PTGWO National Secretary, Atty. Hernan Nicdao and Union President Ericson Rotoni.