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May 2024

  • PISTON: Crackdown on jeepneys is a crackdown on affordable, accessible public transport

    PISTON: Crackdown on jeepneys is a crackdown on affordable, accessible public transport

    PISTON denounces the government-imposed nationwide crackdown on unconsolidated jeepneys starting today, May 16, as a deliberate massacre of transport workers’ livelihoods and an attack on the people’s right to accessible and affordable public transport. Even two weeks after the April 30 deadline, the Marcos government has yet to lay out concrete plans for supporting and…

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  • PISTON supports the general strike in Argentina

    PISTON supports the general strike in Argentina

    PISTON sends its solidarity to the millions of Argentine workers going on a general strike on May 9, 2024 against the extreme anti-worker economic policies of the Javier Milei government. The general strike calls for an urgent wage increase, free trade unions, and opposition to the privatization of state enterprises. Since the Milei government assumed…

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  • PISTON on Labor Day: Workers’ rights, not franchise consolidation, are what’s non-negotiable

    PISTON on Labor Day: Workers’ rights, not franchise consolidation, are what’s non-negotiable

    It is especially daunting that on May 1, 2024, as the world commemorates the International Labor Day, jeepney drivers and operators who refuse to partake in the corporate-driven and foreign-oriented public transport modernization program of the Marcos regime and its franchise consolidation policy are designated as illegal, or colorum, by the very same government entrusted…

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