MalacaÑang on Wednesday said President Rodrigo Duterte is willing to meet with jeepney groups that staged a transport strike on Monday over a government plan to phase out their vehicles. This came after the President met with various labor groups in Malacañang on Monday to discuss the issue of labor contractualization. The Palace official, however, added that Duterte’s meeting with transport groups is yet to be scheduled. A nationwide transport strike was staged last Monday, in response to government’s failure to listen to transport groups’ plea to scrap the proposed phaseout of old jeepneys in the country. The jeepney groups are opposing the order of the Department of Transportation to prohibit jeepney models that are 15 years old and older from plying their routes.

Source: Manila Times March 01, 2017 14:15 UTC