The struggle of jeepney drivers

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Strike paralyzes Cotabato City transport
By Edwin O. Fernandez and Charlie C. Señase, PDI Mindanao Bureau, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 23 March 2000. Jeepney drivers and operators, slumdwellers and other sectoral representatives yesterday took to the streets to demand an oil price rollback and the resignation or ouster of President Estrada.
North Metro jeepney drivers stage strike
By Jerry Botial, The Philippine Star, Tuesday 4 June 2002. They protested not because of the rising prices of gasoline nor because they wanted a fare hike but because of colorum buses and jeepneys plying their route with impunity and eating up their daily take.
Classes suspended, thousands stranded as jeepneys strike
Inquirer News Service, The Philippines Daily Inquirer, 21 July 2003. The governments of Manila and Marikina, as well as the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, deployed vehicles to ferry stranded passengers. Transport groups led by the Philippine Confederation of Drivers and Operators-Alliance of Concerned Transport Organizations were concerned about the high registration fees, the insistence of mayors to issue their own traffic tickets and the planned phaseout of jeepneys.