{"id":69663,"date":"2016-01-27T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T04:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69663"},"modified":"2016-01-27T23:06:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T04:06:48","slug":"protest-actions-set-pnoys-veto-sss-pension-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/27\/protest-actions-set-pnoys-veto-sss-pension-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest actions set against PNoy&#8217;s veto on SSS pension hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">MANILA &#8211; More protest actions by different worker groups are set against President Aquino\u2019s veto on the P2,000 increase in pension of the Social Security System (SSS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to Bayan secretary-general Renato Reyes, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and Kilusang Mayo Uno will lead the action protests today (Manila time) at different branches of SSS nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Senior citizens, families, workers and other supporters of the pension increase will also gather on Satuday at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The workers\u2019 group is hoping to gather enough signatures at the House of Representatives and at the Senate before the Congress takes its break on Feb. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOur senior citizens are supposed to be resting and enjoying the fruits of their labor, but because of the callousness of the Aquino regime, senior citizens are marching and demanding increased benefits and better services,\u201d Reyes said in a report by Rhodina Villanueva of the Philippine Star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reyes added that the issue of the SSS only prioritizes the business and investments over social protection. The system they have only rewards the inefficiency of government officials while denying the retirees benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8211; More protest actions by different worker groups are set against President Aquino\u2019s veto on the P2,000 increase in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":69145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-69663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-p-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}