Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Monday, March 6, denied the “red-tagging” of PUV drivers, but maintained that the transport strike was “communist-inspired” and that the learners became “casualties” of the protest.
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Monday, March 6, denied the “red-tagging” of public utility vehicle drivers, but maintained that the transport strike was “communist-inspired” and that the learners became “casualties” of the protest.
In a statement, the official stressed that the transport group Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide was “poisoned by the ideologies of the bankrupt Communist Party of the Philippines , the National Democratic Front of the Philippines , and the New People’s Army .” “And happily cavorting with Piston and other militant organizations is ACT, a group that is diametrically nowhere near in the service of the interest of the learners and the education sector,” she said of Alliance of Concerned Teachers Party-list group, which called on the Department of Education to cancel classes in areas that would be affected by the strike.
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