Sentences with phrase «cutting public service jobs»

Among the measures to ensure revenue neutrality include saving $ 1.8 billion from changes to the car fringe benefits tax and cutting public service jobs.

They will continue to cut benefits, undermine wages and cut public service jobs.

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That there would be job cuts at a legacy IT provider is almost a forgone conclusion as these companies, many of which made the bulk of their money on pricey, proprietary hardware and software, must adapt to a world in which more companies send more of their computing jobs to a public cloud provider like Amazon @amzn (amzn) Web Services.

Wynne's recent election win spared Ontario from the 100,000 public service job cuts promised by her Conservative opponent Tim Hudak.

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

«Let loose in government on their own they would wreck the recovery — costing jobs, driving up interest rates and undermining the growth needed to cut tax bills and fund public services,» he will say.

Commenting, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: «Today's announcement is part of a crude drive to slash jobs and cut costs which will leave HMRC unable to deliver quality public services.

Fifty thousand tax workers are being balloted on a wide - ranging programme of industrial action in a dispute over job cuts, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

Cutting public services and jobs now will hit local economies, stunting economic growth, and ultimately force long - term borrowing up.»

The union yesterday (24) started balloting more than 250,000 of its members in civil and public services for a national strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay: www.pcs.org.uk

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.

Gov. David Paterson and legislators quietly borrowed state money in 2010 to give to their favorite baseball clubs, veterans halls, museums and even a racetrack casino at the same time they were cutting jobs and support for schools, health care and other basic public services.

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.

«Over the last few years we have seen countless public sector IT contracts fail, such as the delivery of tax credits, and the level of services provided by departments reduced in the face of massive job cuts,» said general secretary Mark Serwotka.

We believe there is an alternative to these spending cuts but, if we have to, it's right and inevitable that we will stand up for the jobs and pensions of public servants, as well as the essential services they provide to the public.»

During the fight over service cuts and fare increases, some of the most vocal testimony at public hearings involved people with disabilities who need Metro Bus and Rail to get around to jobs, to homes, to health care.

«When people consider the alternative... the dangers of giving the keys to Number 10 to David Cameron in a Conservative only government where they want to remorselessly cut, cut, cut public services for ideological reasons way beyond what is necessary or put the keys to Number 10 into the hands of Labour, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, who don't really want to deal with the task of balancing the books, actually they think the sensible thing to do is to stick to the course, finish the job, but finish it fairly.

Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.

«Teachers and others who are delivering vital public services have seen their pay cut, pensions plundered, jobs lost and professional status and competence denigrated.

And we will use funds returned from Brussels after Brexit to invest in our public services and the jobs of the future, not tax cuts for the richest.

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.

«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 half a million attending the TUC's March for the Alternative in London a few months ago demonstrated the breadth and depth of support for an alternative to cuts, job losses and the break up of our public services.

«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.

«Instead of cutting jobs, the government should be investing in public services like these to help get people back to work more quickly and help our economy to get back on track.»

Coastguard staff overwhelmingly believe the government's latest attempt to cut their jobs and close stations will put the public at risk, the Public and Commercial Services union annopublic at risk, the Public and Commercial Services union annoPublic and Commercial Services union announces.

Public sector staff in eight more prisons have learned they face privatisation just two weeks after job cuts were announced by the company set to take over Birmingham prison, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

With 1,700 jobs already gone there is a real danger that services to the public will suffer as the agency is cut to the bone.

More than a quarter of a million civil and public servants in the Public and Commercial Services union will start voting this week in a national strike ballot over cuts to pensions, jobs anpublic servants in the Public and Commercial Services union will start voting this week in a national strike ballot over cuts to pensions, jobs anPublic and Commercial Services union will start voting this week in a national strike ballot over cuts to pensions, jobs and pay.

TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said before the march started that workers have had enough of low pay, poor quality jobs and constant cuts to public services.

SOMERSET — Fresh off the stunning approval of a cut - rate electricity deal between a Canadian government - run power monopoly and New York City by the New York State Public Service Commission, local leaders are calling for the deal to be blocked before local jobs are lost.

We can just move on... & oppose front - line job losses & the dismantling of specific public services i.e. oppose specific policies (don't even call them «cuts») that the public clearly do not support.

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.

Caretaker Labour leader Harriet Harman also questioned the coalition's spending cuts: «Already Labour is responding to people's concerns about jobs and public services and mobilising against Tory / Lib Dem decisions which will harm this country.

«We haven't heard anything from their new political allies, the Lib Dems, to suggest that protecting jobs and public services in Wales from disproportionate cuts is a red line during their talks with the Tories.

While we work very hard to move our own country in a fairer, more just and more ecologically - sound direction, we would ask that you not discourage other countries from supporting this tax as one equitable solution to address the climate crisis, cuts to public services, and widespread job loss faced by their populations.

Measures to control spending include cutting 1,500 public service jobs and getting rid of redundant agencies.

With public sector job cuts happening across the UK, Oxford are likely to be hit quite badly and see a growing number of local residents going through redundancy and therefore needing career management or outplacement services.