TUCP president Raymond Democrito Mendoza —Picture from TUCP web site
MANILA, Philippines — The Commerce Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) has urged the Division of Transportation (DOTr) to convene teams and stakeholders to handle considerations concerning the transportation sector.
“It’s crucial that the brand new management of Transportation Secretary [Vivencio] Dizon hear and heed the grievances of our transport teams—whether or not on the general public utility automobile (PUV) modernization program or the provisional fare hike petition—as a result of our jeepney drivers and our using public are each staff,” TUCP president Raymond Democrito Mendoza stated in a press release on Friday.
Mendoza can be TUCP’s occasion listing consultant within the Home of Representatives, the place he additionally serves as deputy speaker.
“All of us—jeepney drivers, commuters and staff—are barely surviving, burdened by the identical every day hardships of hovering rice costs, skyrocketing water and energy payments, and rising social safety contributions,” Mendoza added.
Final yr, TUCP, along with the nation’s largest enterprise organizations and commerce unions underneath the nationwide dialogue mechanism, known as Leaders Discussion board, issued a joint assertion calling for an “pressing evaluation of the PTMP (Public Transport Modernization Program) to handle its authorized, monetary and human rights infirmities.”
Concrete options
“The stakeholders’ assembly we’re requesting is essential to understanding the realities confronted by these within the Philippine jeepney business—operators, drivers and even native automobile producers,” Mendoza stated.
The dialogue, in line with him, may pave the best way for concrete options, together with authorities subsidies for native producers, strengthened social safety for jeepney drivers, and upskilling and reskilling applications for transport staff.
“A very roadworthy and environmentally pleasant fashionable transportation system should be inclusive and sustainable,” Mendoza stated.
TUCP, the nation’s largest labor federation, has been calling for a significant session and inclusive insurance policies that guarantee transport modernization is honest and viable for all stakeholders with out sacrificing the livelihood of 1000’s of our jeepney drivers and small operators and the welfare of tens of hundreds of thousands of passengers, largely staff, to get to work and again house.
Dizon final week started assembly with a number of transport teams supporting or against the PTMP.
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