Sentences with phrase «mean public sector workers»

Resisting the temptation to offer a traditional pre-election bribe, Osborne also announced that he was continuing with a freeze on public sector pay until 2017, meaning public sector workers will have seen their pay held back below inflation for seven years.

As a 2013 Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) report found, that means public sector workers end up with a pension worth up to a third less than under previous rules.

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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.

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.

A survey by Unison, revealed that public sector workers now live in fear that spending cuts will mean unemployment - and this is starting to take it's toll in people defecting to the private sector.

Liberal Democrats under VAT fire In an article for Channel 4 News UNISON general secretary, Dave Prentis, said the VAT rise, along with the changes in the public sector would mean a «cut in living standards for millions of ordinary workers and their families.»

• 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.

This would essentially mean that «right to work» would be constitutionally mandated for public - sector workers.

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.