PUBLIC utility transport groups will hold the first of a two-day nationwide strike on Monday against a government plan to phase out jeepneys, which PUJ owners and drivers have branded as “anti-poor."

"The Duterte administration wants to massacre the livelihood of over 600,000 PUJ drivers and 300,000 small operators and turn our PUJ’s operations into a milking cow of his big business cronies -- the Ayalas, Pangilinans, Aboitizes and Cojuangcos," the Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Piston) said in a joint press statement with other transport groups issued on Sunday.

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