Jeepney drivers have the right to strike and hold similar industrial actions, transport group PISTON said Saturday, after the government regulator hinted at sanctions for those who joined the transport strike last Monday.
PISTON, or the Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide, said the Philippines is a signatory to International Labor Organization Convention 87, which holds that the right to strike can only be restricted in extremely limited circumstances. The transport group also said that “no government should have such broad powers to restrict a worker’s right to strike beyond ensuring the life, health, and safety of the whole or part of the population.”
He stressed, though, that those who joined the strike may have violated the terms of their franchises.He said that jeepney drivers and operators can hold protests “as long as they don’t take their vehicles out of their routes” so transport services will not be affected.The Transportation Department has been pushing the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program to phase out the decades-old jeepney design since the Duterte administration.
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