IN DUMAGUETE
Port workers declare strike
BY RENE GENOVE

A group of porters in Dumaguete City  declared a strike yesterday, after the new cargo handling operator did not absorb all of them, and instead required them to undergo legal screening as provided in a contract.

Vice president Supriano Sabanal of the ALU-TUCP said they declared a strike because the union members who were not accepted opposed the screening process by the new operator, Prudential Customs Brokerage Services Inc.

However, porters filed a motion for reconsideration on the grounds stipulated in a memorandum of agreement providing that all of them should be hired.

Macias welcomes
302nd IB commander
BY RENE GENOVE

Gov. Emilio Macias II welcomed newly installed 302nd Infantry Brigade commander Col. Cesar Yano, who vowed to head the counter-insurgency campaigns in Negros Oriental.

Macias welcomed the military unit leader as he highlighted his administration’s ongoing development projects in his province.

Yano, on the other hand, briefed Macias on his program of action aimed at touching base with the locals, especially in the remote communities, and to educate them about the nature of the 40-year-old insurgency in the country and its bad effects to the economy.

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