Sentences with phrase «against pension cuts»

«I'm against the pension cuts.

The governor and legislative leaders have spoken against pension cuts and other cost - cutting measures in the proposal.

Not exact matches

Pensioners demonstrate to protest against deep cuts to pensions and measures included in the government's draft 2018 budget, on November 23, 2017 in Athens.

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

Then Wednesday will see a massive walkout by public sector workers protesting against cuts to their pensions arrangements.

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

The work and pensions secretary left open the possibility of moves against the elderly after days of buildup to today's Commons vote on deep cuts to welfare spending for those of working age.

«We have also seen more women in work than ever before, a tax cut for 11 million women, we have stopped pensions being discriminated against women and we are putting women at the front of our international aid programmes.»

A UK offensive against the cost of maintaining European officials, proposing a series of measures which would see their pay and pension costs cut, met with little support.

That realisation lent an apocalyptic tinge to events this week, as union members met in London to plan a «mass movement» against cuts — a movement which would kick off with a nationwide strike over public sector pensions.

«That's why I've voted over 175 against tax increases, passed a plan to strip convicted politicians of their pensions, delivered a $ 4 billion middle class tax cut, and fought for an additional $ 20 million in funding for South Shore schools.

The Tory rebel, who resigned as work and pensions minister over the ex-Chancellor's budget, is speaking out publicly against the planned cut to Universal Credit, which he says will cost three million people more than # 1,000 a year each.

The party is planning to campaign against the CGT cuts in the coming weeks to apply more pressure on the chancellor following Iain Duncan Smith's shock resignation as work and pensions secretary, when he branded Osborne's budget «deeply unfair», triggering the scrapping of the disability benefit cuts.

MORI's poll asked if people supported strike action by «people in a numbre of public sector jobs» over job cuts, pay levels and pension reductions — they found 48 % in support, 48 % against (Ipsos MORI, 19th June.)

The argument against the BOL's suggested use of $ 11 million from the fund balance — that it imperils the County's AAA bond rating — is a smokescreen for reckless budget cuts, said Jenkins, who noted that the Astorino Administration already used millions from the fund balance this year to pay a pension bill and has notified the BOL that it will need an additional $ 8.8 million from the fund balance by the end of December to «even out» the 2012 books.

On May Day, thousands of Puerto Rican teachers, parents, and students launched strikes and boycotts to push back against austerity measures that would close nearly 300 schools, lay off 7,000 teachers, convert public schools into privatized charters, and cut public sector pensions.

At the end of last week, police pepper sprayed members of the Puerto Rican teachers union (FMPR) as they protested against the Fiscal Oversight Board's plan to close nearly another 300 schools, lay off thousands of teachers, cut their pensions, and impose charter schools.

The Greek government, elected early this year on a platform of ending years of austerity imposed by Germany and other lenders, is pushing back against further pension cuts and higher taxes, saying they would further weaken an already crippled economy.

Labor strife has been on the rise in Canada as unions push back against corporate cost - cutting drives and governments strive to reduce wage and pension costs.