The United Negros Drivers and Operators Center is coordinating with its counterparts in Iloilo, Roxas and Cebu for a possible Visayas-wide transport strike against another oil price hike.

UNDOC Secretary General Diego Malacad said yesterday that they are set to meet Saturday this week on the matter and UNDOC is inviting the Federation of Bacolod City Drivers Association to join them.

FEBACDA president Elizabeth Katalbas said that, although the new oil price hike is tolerable, they are afraid this may be a prelude to a bigger increase by next month.

CAPGEM cooperative
eyeing P1-million venture

The CAPGEM Community Multipurpose Cooperative is eyeing a P1-million emission testing center in Bacolod City this year, its incoming general manager Leans Villafranca, said yesterday.

Villafranca said the establishment of the emission testing center is one of the priority projects of CAPGEM and is aimed at giving employment opportunities to children of Capitol employees.

Although they will prioritize the children of Capitol workers for employment at the emission testing center, he said, they will also entertain other applicants.

‘Overseas employers
prefer Negrenses’

Most overseas companies prefer employees from Bacolod City and Negros Occidental because of their good work attitude, Benjie Estrada, recruitment supervisor of Industrial Personnel And Management Services Inc., said yesterday.

Estrada, who was in Bacolod City, said that workers from Bacolod and Negros Occidental stay longer with their employers and mostly until their contracts end.

About 100 applicants for vacant positions abroad joined the jobs fair conducted by IPAMS at the Bacolod Public Employment Services Office yesterday.