Sentences with phrase «cutting public sector pensions»

Cutting public sector pensions won't help private sector workers — it will just make everyone poorer in retirement.

They do not accept this race to the bottom, cutting public sector pensions in the same way as private sector pensions have already been cut.

Responding to reports that Danny Alexander will later today (17) announce the government will not change its mind on cutting public sector pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.

Speaking after today's (27) meeting with ministers over the government's plans to cut public sector pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.

Mr Barber's latest attack on the government comes as his organisation prepares for the «TUC Day of Action» on November 30th when up to three million workers will take part in stoppages, meetings and rallies in protest over the government's decision to cut public sector pensions.

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.

Not exact matches

Eroding pension plans by shifting risk onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on public sector workers and improve the profitability of their corporate friends in the private sector.

The ground is being prepared for a neoliberal «cure»: cutting back pensions and health care, defaulting on pension promises to labor, and selling off the public sector, letting the new proprietors to put up tollbooths on everything from roads to schools.

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.

«The shadow chancellor has wrapped up public sector cuts, public sector pay freezes, a rise in retirement age and reduced pension rights in warm words that will ring hollow with Britain's army of public sector workers.»

As part of the ongoing talks over wider cuts to public sector pensions, ministers have since ruled out any negotiations on the issue.

Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes over public sector pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.

On the other hand, however, PM Samaras and his negotiators did present creditors substantiated counterarguments in response to nonsensical austerity measures that would only deepen the recession (cross-cutting public sector job and pension cuts).

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

In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service jobpublic sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service jobPublic and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over civil service job cuts.

Public sector workers in Britain have gone on strike today in a row over pay, pensions, conditions, jobs and spending cuts.

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.

Public sector workers are striking today over a row on pay, conditions, pensions and spending cuts.

The new coalition government in Britain has begun a process of attacking working class living standards through public spending cuts, slashing public services and reducing public sector pay, jobs and pensions.

By 2012, state contributions to many public sector pensions will be cut, saving # 1 billion a year.

No - one really wanted to set out where the cuts will hit, and we had diversionary tactics such as talking about public sector pensions for the few very well paid public sector staff that won't make any real contribution to reducing the deficit.

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.

A source close to the mayor said: «It is impossible to justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on pensions at a time of severe public sector cuts and wage freezes.

«David Cameron's claim that he wants to maintain a discussion with the unions is undermined by him saying in the next breath that he's not prepared to negotiate on the specific issue of the change from the RPI to CPI index for public sector pensions - which represents a massive cut in the value of pensions.

«This coming year is going to be one of the most challenging years for the trade union movement - and public sector trade unions in particular - as the coalition government seeks to make the public sector and its workforce pay for the crisis, through cuts to jobs, services, pay and pensions.

They also admit that money cut from pensions will go to the Treasury to help pay off the deficit, not into pension schemes, which the union says amounts to a tax on working in the public sector.

The union says the government's slash and burn approach to tackling the budget deficit will mean vital public services are axed, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers will be thrown out of work, and those that remain will have their pay and pensions cut.

The main civil servants» union, the Public and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face&rPublic and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face&rpublic sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face».

Senior elected representatives of the Public and Commercial Services union, by far the largest union in the civil service, today (11) confirmed a rejection of the government's planned cuts to public sector penPublic and Commercial Services union, by far the largest union in the civil service, today (11) confirmed a rejection of the government's planned cuts to public sector penpublic sector pensions.

But it is a strange idea of fairness to argue that because private sector staff have seen big cuts in their pensions, then so must the public sector.

Public sector workers are taking part in a series of strikes across the country over disputes involving pay, pensions and cuts.

The ability to avoid too much unpalatable cutting was the consequence of finding # 7bn extra cuts / effective tax rises from the Welfare budget and from Child Benefit, along with rises in public sector employee pension contributions, though it was disappointing (but not surprising) that misdirected programmes such as winter fuel payments survive intact.

«These are the same people who protected their own pension scheme but cut the pensions of the lowest - paid public sector workers,» he added.

The protests come as governments across the eurozone push through cuts to public sector pensions, wages and services, in return for a financial bailout.

Contrast that with Mr Cable's clear demand that we must slash spending on public - sector pensions, cut back sharply on our global defence commitments and overhaul the ruinous tax credits system.

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.)

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The law would require most public sector workers to contribute more to their health care and pensions, changes that amount to an average 8 percent pay cut.

At a fringe meeting organised by the GMB union, Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, said the unions should not be threatening strike action over cuts to public sector pensions.

The bloated public sector needs «savage» cuts, especially to pay and pensions.

Ministers say the change will bring those claiming benefits in line with public sector workers but the Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne said the cut will affect more working families than those who are out of work.

More than a million public sector workers are expected to strike in a series of disputes with the government over pay, pensions and job cuts.

And it's often middle class public sector workers who've have had their pay and pensions cut to pay for a debt they didn't create.

Public sector unions can breathe a sigh of relief after last month's state Supreme Court ruling: an Illinois pension reform law that would have cut benefits for existing workers was declared unconstitutional.

The Colorado Supreme Court recently restored a measure of fiscal sanity to public sector retirement law in the Centennial State by reversing a Court of Appeals ruling which said that the state could not cut cost - of - living adjustments to help return the state's pension system to health.

In addition to school closures and charterization of the island's school system, FMPR is also fighting proposed cuts to public sector pensions, which the board has suggested should be cut by 25 percent.