Sentences with phrase «councils cutting those jobs»

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FRANKFURT, April 20 - PSA Group wants 3,700 job cuts at Opel in Germany by 2020 and a process of contract buyouts and early retirement has already resulted in a reduction of about 2,000 positions, Opel's works council chief said on Friday.

Uber hosted a «jobs event» for prospective and current drivers to showcase how many New York residents» jobs would be cut if the vehicle cut were to take effect, and also ran TV ads, bought banner ads on websites, sent out direct mailers to constituents of City Council members who are proponents of the proposed legislation, and even reportedly tried to persuade the Rev. Al Sharpton to oppose the for - hire - vehicle cap.

Sewing has won plaudits for successfully negotiating job cuts in the German retail unit with the influential workers» councils, implementing the agreement on schedule and without a strong media backlash.

Southampton city council has become the first big local authority to ask its workers to take a pay cut or lose their jobs, triggering a row with unions.

«Public attention is likely to continue to focus on the service and job cuts which councils determine in order to balance their budgets.»

Radical cuts in local government spending need not damage frontline services if councils cull unnecessary jobs, according to the Taxpayers» Alliance.

A fightback is now well and truly underway with the Sun, Telegraph, Express and Mail doing (1) a particularly good job at highlighting waste in those councils making the biggest cuts in local government and (2) also the massive inflation in councillor remuneration.

«The Business Council's 2012 voters guide shows that Senate Republicans have been working successfully with Governor Cuomo to control spending, cut taxes and lay the foundation to create thousands of new jobs in New York.

Yesterday, the Local Government Association warned that councils would have to make up to 100,000 job reductions — equivalent to about one in ten local authority workers - in the wake of the spending cuts.

He has critiqued budget cuts to councils and promoted a platform of jobs and regeneration.

The Council's Ken Pokalsky says some workers will lose their jobs, and others will see their weekly hours cut back if the minimum wage goes up.

She had lost her job because of local council cuts; her partner was terminally ill; her elderly mother was struggling to pay for care; and her own health problems were making it harder for her to get a job.

When in power as part of the Tory - led coalition from 2010 - 15, the Lib Dems voted through a raft of benefit cuts including the bedroom tax, cuts to council tax benefit, housing benefit and tax credits, as well as presiding over a disability benefit testing system that wrongly denied benefits to thousands of people, and a job centre sanctions system that saw benefits docked for hundreds of thousands of jobseekers.

Overshadowing the devolved powers in the bill are the cuts imposed on local councils and the impact on local services as well as the potential job losses, amid claims that more than 140,000 people will be handed redundancy notices by town halls next year.

In addition to cutting more than a dozen jobs from Oswego's fire and police services at its Monday meeting, the city's common council also eliminated the entire planning and zoning department.

The City Council now has to review the mayor's budget and propose increasing property taxes as high as 4 percent, and perhaps raise other revenues to try and restore some of the proposed job cuts — or it can abide by the mayor's spending plan.

Think about what's happening here in Manchester, projects to rebuild 10,000 homes in run - down areas axed, # 560m of transport schemes scrapped, sweeping cuts at Bolton, Salford, Trafford and Rochdale councils, 150 firefighter jobs at risk in Greater Manchester Fire Service, # 7m of cuts in the police force, up to 1,000 NHS admin jobs in danger and a local breast cancer helpline, that has taken 80,000 calls since it was set up, about to be closed, because health trusts will no longer foot the # 63,000 annual running cost,» he said.

If the former then how much does that involve crapping on the working class and poor from a great height as countless Labour councils have been doing for years now by implementing cit after cut, job loss after job loss and without even bothering anymore with some ritual hand - wringing — I assume a great deal given Corbyn and McDonnell have made it very clear that local councilors must not fight back.

«What we did in this budget was identify the areas where the pain that was proposed was simply too deep,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who cited classes so big kids couldn't learn and parents who would be forced to quit their jobs because of day care cuts.

About 4,000 heads across 17 councils, mostly in southern England, are writing to their MPs warning that schools face job losses and cuts to subjects.

While the nine - member council ultimately voted 8 — 1 to accept a budget that includes $ 700,000 in education cuts, they strongly denounced any plans to cut teachers» jobs.