Transport groups PISTON and MANIBELA on Thursday announced that they would hold a nationwide transport strike next week amid the looming deadline for consolidation of PUV drivers and operators.
Transport groups PISTON and MANIBELA on Thursday announced that they would hold a nationwide transport strike next week amid the looming deadline for consolidation of public utility vehicle drivers and operators. A tweet by GMA Integrated News' Joseph Morong said the transport strike will last for two days and will start on Monday, April 15.
The consolidation of individual PUV franchises into cooperatives or corporations is the initial stage of the program. A modern jeepney unit costs over P2 million, an amount that even state-run banks LandBank and Development Bank of the Philippines said was too expensive for PUV drivers and operators.Floranda said they are the removal of legitimate franchises just to supposedly give them to big corporations.
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