The provincial government of Negros Occidental will need the help of local government units if the planned strike of employees of Vallacar Transit operator of Ceres Liner will push through.
Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday said that while he hopes that it will not materialize considering the impact of a work stoppage on the province’ s economy, “the province will find ways and will need the cooperation of the LGU’s. The province cannot do this alone.”
“Negrenses has great dependence on the Ceres buses,” the governor pointed out.
Lacson said he is “still hoping that transportation will not be paralyzed because it will be the riding public that will be affected.”
He added that right now operations of the buses are “still normal.”
I hope that those planning any strike will study it more, Lacson said.
CAN’T MEDIATE.
Pressed if he will mediate between the “warring” Yanson clan to avert a strike by its workers, Lacson said “I can’t do it.”
“It will be really among themselves who can settle this. There are already cases filed in court so we will wait for the action of the courts on these cases,” he pointed out.
Hernane Braza, national president of the Philippine Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Workers Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (PACIWU-TUCP), in a press conference said they will file a notice of stike with the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) for unfair labor practice, among others.
Braza said the feud among the Yanson family members has already affected their thousands of members in the Visayas who are workers of the Yanson Group of Companies.
Our members are caught in the middle of the family dispute, he said.* (UMD/NDB)25
