Sentences with phrase «attack on public service»

I blogged recently about the likely pending attack on public service workers.

«We will not allow ourselves to be drawn into accepting cuts to welfare, attacks on public services, mass job losses, and cuts to pay and pensions, with the occasional promise of tea and a cosy chat in Downing Street.

The recession, the cuts to the bone at schools, the attacks on public service, the increasingly savage racism and economic inequality that our students face, John Deasy for three years, all of them have set us back.

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It adopted this policy to head off a rising chorus of public attacks on the Postal Service monopoly.

«My members are ready and they're out there and there working on positive changes because they're concerned not only about their own jobs and the staffing and the constant attack on government services, but they're concerned with the services themselves and the people who need them,» said Susan Kent, of the Public Employees Federation.

The London assembly's investigation into the attacks on the capital's transport system, in which 52 people died, praised the «incredible acts of courage» by ambulance, police and fire service staff, and members of the public.

The right hates this promise but it's a key component of Team Cameron's wider attempt to pre-empt any Labour attacks on the Tories as «risky» with the nation's finances or with Britain's public services.

Moving the motion Chris Keates said: «Since 2010 we have endured sustained, brutal attacks on our welfare state, our public services, on trade unions, on democracy and on our rights and freedoms.

Question Time presenter David Dimbleby appeared on the Today programme this morning and instantly became a fan favourite for the post with a passionate defence of public service broadcasting combined with a savage attack on the management culture at the corporation.

It comes as Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude launched yet another public attack on the civil service, pushing Whitehall deeper into a bitter internal war now threatening to consume the government.

Lord Falconer, the former lord chancellor, also stepped up his attack on the prime minister, writing today's Times: «My view is that the painful step of changing our leader, a leader who has given his life to the Labour party and to public service, would be best for the party and the country.»

«Rather than finding more and more ways of attacking and penalising public service workers, time and energy should be spent on pressing the Coalition to clear up the economic mess.»

ALBANY, NY (03/13/2012)(readMedia)-- Busloads of state employees represented by the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) will rally at noon Thursday, March 15, in Albany's West Capitol Park to call on state legislators to hold the line against the governor's attacks on state services and pensions.

Alan Johnson, the health secretary, will tomorrow launch a pointed attack on David Cameron, saying the recession has seen the Tories revert to their default position of cutting public services at the expense of the most vulnerable people in society.

He called for a return to idealism and has defended Labour's record on public services but attacked the behaviour of the financial industry pre-credit crunch as «unacceptable» and «immoral».

The Government may be cautious about direct attacks on the trade unions but this morning's newspapers give a sense of the coming confrontation between the powerful public sector unions and the people who depend upon public services.

NEC members praised his conference speech and drew attention to Tory attacks on employment rights including access to tribunals, the paradox under which British railways can be run by states as long as they are foreign states, the need for good jobs not just any jobs, further cuts in public service pay, the threat of a new European / United States trade agreement, excessive warmth towards free schools, and expansion of food banks and payday loans into mainstream society.

The suspect identified as Kofi Seshie, has been named as the man who shot and killed the officer who was on monitoring assignment during the attack on the night of January 21, Director - General of Public Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, ACP, David Eklu announced on Joy News Saturday evening.

At Commons question time, acting Labour leader Harriet Harman seized on the «secret Treasury analysis» to attack the government's strategy of cutting public services, repeatedly calling on Cameron to publish the document.

On the flip side we're also seeing a rise in cyber attacks in the education and public sectors with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the NHS making national headlines last year and more recently hoax bomb phishing emails demanding money from schoolOn the flip side we're also seeing a rise in cyber attacks in the education and public sectors with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the NHS making national headlines last year and more recently hoax bomb phishing emails demanding money from schoolon the NHS making national headlines last year and more recently hoax bomb phishing emails demanding money from schools.

They have long been at war with the teachers» unions as they battle for better schools and better services and have advanced a systematic attack on teachers» unions all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which will hear a case, Janus v. AFSCME, this month that could deal a major blow to public - sector unions nationwide.

I'd not previously realized this more nasty aspect of the publishers» attack on public libraries, requiring «OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).»

This is a public service announcement: You must, I mean, must, take a break from police pursuits and the presidential election and attacks on Muni and Peter Thiel and Millbrae murder and Uber and Trump and watch this video of a baby otter being returned to its mom by the Marine Mammal Center.

Despite what the Conservatives have always maintained, public services are not inherently inefficient, but years of so - called reforms, continuous restructuring and top - down interference, combined with virulent attacks on public sector workers, have seriously damaged morale in the sector and virtually destroyed a vital public service ethos.

The enlightened perspective in these letters, which the Committee has yet to share with the public, stands in stark contrast to the combative climate denialism with which some of the Committee members attacked NOAA at a June 22 hearing on the Climate Service proposal.

Investigation of criminal spear - phishing attack used to steal funds from public oilfield services technology company; direct forensic investigation of attack; counsel client on disclosure obligations and remediation efforts.

We also have to be exceedingly careful not to harm the true public interest by attacking the many areas of legal advice and services that are affordable by thoughtlessly sacrificing them to profit - seeking, anti-competitive nonlawyer investors on a trumped up altar of access to justice simply to avoid dealing with the real A2J problem.

«Despite health being a top priority for voters, it received scant attention in the Prime Minister's address, with no discussion of Coalition health policy and attacks on Labor policy on Medicare,» said Alison Verhoeven, chief executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, representing public health services.