Sentences with phrase «many other public sector workers»

Teachers are set to be joined by other public sector workers in a mass walkout at the end of the month.

Teachers, nurses and other public sector workers might not like the coalition's changes.

Conference commits the National Executive to working with the TUC to challenge, using all appropriate means, including industrial action, any attempt by the Government, in response to and as a remedy for economic difficulties or recession, to worsen pension provisions for teachers or other public sector workers.

They want to turn private sector landlords, teachers, medical staff and other public sector workers into unpaid immigration officers, forcing them to provide information to the authorities.

Speaking to Citi News, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education, Francis Gbadago, said the motivation allowance has outlived its usefulness, adding that other public sector workers such as doctors and nurses, are not paid such allowances to be motivated to work harder.

Up to 750,000 teachers, lecturers, civil servants and other public sector workers are expected to walk out in the largest day of strike action since the 1980s.

Handing politicians a # 10k pay rise is completely unacceptable while other public sector workers are facing pay restraint.

Police and firefighters are typically eligible to retire after 20 years of service, and many other public sector workers can leave at age 55.

It said higher paid NHS staff already pay proportionally more for their pensions than most other public sector workers.

Teachers and other public sector workers have been warned that the one per cent pay rise promised to public sector staff is not guaranteed.

Thousands of teachers and other public sector workers have been retiring in recent years, fueled in part by changes to their pensions.

In contrast, teachers and other public sector workers are still overwhelmingly offered defined benefit pension plans and more than four out of five teachers are enrolled in a DB plan today.

Teachers are often lumped in with other public sector workers, but the turnover rates of the teaching profession places them in a much more volatile position than other state or local government positions.

Indeed, the TUC recently reported that teachers put in more overtime than any other public sector workers and Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the NUT, has said that teachers are «manifestly overworked» and that their jobs are becoming «increasingly stressful».

Sadly, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health reported in 2014 that firefighters in particular have higher rates of cancer than other public sector workers, due to the harmful exposure to chemicals and toxic materials they encounter.

Not exact matches

Ari Paul argues that police unions deserve not solidarity from other city unions, but rather, healthy antagonism — public sector workers like teachers should take a forceful stance against police brutality.

Public sector workers, including teachers and other school staff, are expected to strike on Thursday 10 July forcing some schools to shut.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

David Cameron, Michael Gove and other Government figures have been depicted in a variety of unflattering manners by striking public sector workers today.

It has overseen an explosion in the wage bill of the state, to the point where the average public - sector worker now earns # 74 more per week than a private - sector employee, as well as having much better pension and other entitlements.»

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

Why black workers lost public sector jobs at higher rates than other groups during the Great Recession is unclear.

Digging deeper into the data, she discovered an unexpected chasm in public - sector job losses between black and other workers.

The study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and motivation to serve the public of public sector workers on the one hand and the mutual influence of these factors on three indicators of their performance: job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and the quality of service, on the other.

In terms of schooling, one of our measures of worker quality, the education levels of nonteaching males in the public sector have not declined relative to the education levels of other male workers.

Though new to education, Human Performance Improvement is well established in evidence - based practices, including medicine, energy, construction, and other sectors in which the cost of human error or under - performance is high and can be damaging to workers, the environment, or the public.

Six years ago, the state of Wisconsin passed the highly controversial 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, which virtually eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public - sector workers, as well as slashed those workers» benefits, among other changes.

Iowa recently passed an Act 10 - inspired law with similar policies affecting public - sector workers and their unions.1 Other states and members of Congress are considering enacting such policies, and with its ruling on Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the U.S. Supreme Court may act to weaken public - sector unions and teachers» ability to collectively bargain.2

As we showed last year, teachers have higher retirement costs than any other major group of workers, even other public - sector employees.

In this country, many people of color work in the public sector as teachers, social workers, first responders, healthcare providers, and other critical areas of responsibility that improve our overall quality of life.

Similarly, legal statutes also afford unions in the private sector extended rights for unpaid leave as a means of negotiation — in other words, unionized workers in the private (and often public) sector have the right to strike.

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