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Tomorrow Strikes!



It has just been announce - tomorrow we have a "national strike day".

Jeepney drivers, operators and other concerned NGO's will be back on the streets but in opposite directions with the thousands of students, workers and employees willing to go to school or go to job yet without any means of going there. If some have their own cars and other transports yet there will be vigilant "strikers" swearing to get the streets free of movement.

I don't like strikes. Why? Because "strikes" are bad for business - that I learned in college. Let me blurt out with my personal observations...

Strike means no class tomorrow. Students get blunt for a day;
Strike means no money for drivers of passenger vehicles;
Strike means violence (always a case here so don't argue);
Strike means business is down;
Strike means discontent;
Strike means injustice;
Strike means higher transport fare and lower peso-value;
Strike means politicking;
Strike means the rich gets richer;
Strike means minus to my salary because I will be absent forcibly;
Strike means noise in the streets;
Strike means I should stay home and sleep (that's not productive);
Strike means some people are being paid (strike-maniacs!);
Strike means our country is getting close to civil disobedience;

I am sorry for the local organizations that always strike and strike and strike. I believe they are doing something for the people but sometimes it's just not that way. I just heard from the radio last night that one head of an association of jeepney operators here declared that they just wouldn't join the strike tomorrow. I remembered this association official also declared full support to another strike just about a month ago asking for a 2-peso increase in jeepney fares. The fare increase was approved and at a big 3-peso rise. Tomorrow the strike will be to put down the law that was instrumental of these fare hikes and Mr. Official will not join it because it could lower the fares again. STUPID FAT HUNGRY CORPORATE SUCKERS! I believe these people control the strikes and the price hikes.

Enough for me to dislike strikes. I just can't get to thinking how most of the Filipinos got addicted to coming out into the streets. As for me I believe I'm just a job-addicted service-manic humble employee willing to teach my students the virtue of swallowing your bone of contentment, and am not blind either.

Tomorrow I'll be on the streets for the early rush of riding the morning transports to 16 kilometers ahead where I teach. At 6 AM the strike will start and I'd be staying in school until 6 PM when the strikes are going to end. At least, when my students arrive, they wouldn't go home saying "NO CLASS, IT'S A STRIKE!"


"Do not judge the moron who thought he saw something shine just because the wise never noticed so much they've both stayed long in the dark."

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