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  • Punitive cameras, broken system: How NCAP fails working class drivers

    Punitive cameras, broken system: How NCAP fails working class drivers

    The No-Contact Apprehension Policy (NCAP) was introduced with the aim of enhancing road safety and curbing corruption in traffic enforcement. However, in practice, it has primarily served as a punitive mechanism, imposing excessive fines that disproportionately affect informal worker Public Utility Vehicle (PUV) drivers. These drivers, who typically earn Php300–Php500 per day, find themselves burdened…

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  • Piston on DOTr’s mandatory drug testing for PUV drivers: Safe roads require stable jobs, living wages, and humane working hours for drivers

    Piston on DOTr’s mandatory drug testing for PUV drivers: Safe roads require stable jobs, living wages, and humane working hours for drivers

    Piston strongly opposes the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) recent pronouncement mandating drug testing for all public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers. While ensuring road safety is crucial, this blanket policy is yet another punitive measure that unfairly targets drivers without addressing the real roots of transport problems. Mandatory drug testing, especially when implemented without proper safeguards…

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  • Piston: Rider layoffs, fatal bus crash show public transport is in crisis

    Piston: Rider layoffs, fatal bus crash show public transport is in crisis

    Piston warned of a deepening public transport crisis, citing the government’s planned removal of 14,000 MoveIt riders, a deadly bus crash along SCTEX, and the continued jeepney phaseout as signs of a system in collapse. “This is no longer about isolated incidents,” said Mody Floranda, PISTON national president and Makabayan senatorial candidate. “This is a…

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  • SONA 2024: A road to nowhere for Filipino transport workers and commuters

    SONA 2024: A road to nowhere for Filipino transport workers and commuters

    In his third SONA, Marcos Jr once again failed to address the plight of thousands of jeepney drivers and small operators being displaced by his regime’s public transport modernization program. His transport policies have always prioritized big-ticket infrastructure projects injected with massive foreign debt and only serving as milking cow for his cronies salivating to…

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  • PISTON gears up for franchise consolidation deadline, Labor Day with another strike

    PISTON gears up for franchise consolidation deadline, Labor Day with another strike

    Progressive transport group PISTON has announced plans to push back against the end-of-month franchise consolidation deadline with another transport strike scheduled to begin on April 29 and will lead up to Labor Day on May 1. “The Marcos regime’s disregard for the long-standing plea of drivers and operators to scrap forced franchise consolidation blatantly jeopardizes…

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