Public sector workers are more likely to support
Labour than private sector workers... but not monolithically so.
Not exact matches
Globalization means that capital is more mobile
than labour;
private sector employers can walk away if they do not get the contract they want.
Considering that Canadian MSMEs represent the vast majority of businesses in Canada, employing more
than 7.5 million Canadians — about 70 per cent of Canada's
private sector labour force — it becomes clear how critically important they are to the growth of the Canadian economy.
Union membership and influence has diminished but 25 unions remain significant donors to political parties (mainly the
Labour Party) and the public
sector is more heavily unionised
than the
private sector.
«Conservative support is 38 per cent in the public
sector, but 45 per cent in the
private sector, while
Labour's rating is slightly lower in the public
than the
private sector, at 26 against 29 per cent.
Charities can not magic up the free
labour to run a hospital or school or nursery any more
than government or the
private sector.
MPs and public
sector staff have a moral duty to educate their own children in state rather
than private schools, a senior
Labour MP has declared.
Ed Balls should make a radical departure from
Labour's failed PFI experiment, and admit publicly that Government financing of infrastructure is always cheaper
than private sector finance.