Transport group Manibela declares three-day nationwide strike against PUVMP

Transport group Manibela will pick up where the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide ( Piston ) will leave off, declaring its own three-day nationwide strike starting today until Nov. 24 to oppose the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program ( PUVMP ).

Piston’s members are not joining Manibela’s protests, the latter’s president Mar Valbuena told the Standard, as about 150,000 PUV units are joining his group’s strike across the Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Central Visayas, Western Visayas, Northern Mindanao, and Central Mindanao regions. Piston’s three-day protest ends today as it is following its own schedule, the group’s president Mody Floranda sai

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