Marcos Jr Administration
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PISTON announces another strike
Transport group PISTON, together with Manibela, has declared a new transport strike set to begin on Monday, April 15. This decision comes in response to Marcos Jr’s recent pronouncement that there will be no further extension of the franchise consolidation deadline after April 30. “This is an oppressive move by the Marcos Jr. government,” asserted…
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PISTON demands full withdrawal of individual franchises for disgruntled consolidated PUV operators
PISTON demands the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to allow the full withdrawal of individual franchises for aggrieved PUV operators who have complied with the mandatory franchise consolidation component of the PUV Modernization Program (PUVMP). Under the LTFRB Memorandum Circular (MC) 2024-001, operators who have only applied for franchise consolidation but have not…
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PUVMP, cha-cha threaten to erode the gains of EDSA 1 — PISTON
By staunchly pushing for the public utility vehicle modernization program (PUVMP) and pursuing economic charter change (cha-cha), the Marcos Jr. administration flagrantly undermines the nationalist and democratic gains achieved by the people during the historic first EDSA People Power uprising 38 years ago which also toppled his father’s two-decade-long authoritarian regime. Marcos Jr’s economic cha-cha…
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Unjust accusations vs filmmaker Jade Castro in minibus arson case divert attention from grievances over PUVMP — PISTON
Accusing filmmaker Jade Castro and his three companions as responsible for the minibus arson in Quezon Province solely based on a social media post criticizing the PUV modernization program (PUVMP) poses a significant danger to dissenters of such anti-poor government policies. Regardless of the actual culprits in the Quezon minibus arson, authorities must acknowledge that…
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Marcos ChaCha will not solve transport woes — PISTON
Transport group PISTON denounces legislative efforts to amend economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution, saying that charter change will not solve poverty nor improve the state of public transport. Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri on Jan. 4 filed Resolution of Both Houses No. 6 seeking to relax foreign ownership restrictions on certain economic provisions, including…