Sentences with phrase «of all public sector workers in»

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Unifor will initially represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy, primarily in manufacturing, communications and transportation, as well as some public sector employees in the health, education and transit sectors.

However, with technology - based education initiatives likely to see a reduction in federal and state funding in the coming years, the public sector will likely not have the resources to step in and help bridge the gap between a lack of skilled workers and unfilled jobs.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

Earlier this year, Indiana passed right - to - work legislation and two cities in California voted to curb the pensions of public sector workers.

Portugal has addressed its public debt problem — the deficit was 9.3 % of GDP in 2009 — with a 5 % pay cut for public sector workers earning more than $ 1,500 a month and an increase in VAT.

Cutting government services — either temporarily in a shutdown, or permanently through spending reductions — can disrupt a broad range of commerce and hit American workers and businesses tied to the public sector.

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

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.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

It is important to shine a light on the financial details of workers in the public sector.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

In order to win next year, Cameron needs to persuade at least some of the millions of public sector workers currently living under a one per cent pay freeze that their living standards will improve as well.

That's why, as with most strikes in the public sector, who backs down most will not depend on a direct conflict between workers and management as to who can inflict or sustain most pain; too many members of the public would be caught in the crossfire and both sides» reputations would suffer unacceptably.

«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.»

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

Lord Hutton has recommended the scrapping of final salary pensions, in a widely - expected move likely to trigger anger among public sector workers.

We also fervently call on Government to deal with whatever handicaps or bottlenecks have prevented the payment of April salaries to almost all workers in the public sector.

«Stuck in a familiar groove, Len goes on to suggest that all the ills that he claims are befalling Labour are because of actions of so called «Blairites» — those terrible people who introduced the minimum wage and increased the number, the stature and indeed the pay of public sector workers across the country.»

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

This has been particularly felt in London and the South East, where many vital public sector workers, such as teachers and police officers have found themselves priced out of the market.

To support private sector efforts in expanding access to housing, the Ministry of Finance will partner with banks, pension trustees and securities market players to start a process of developing and deepening the local mortgage and housing finance market to offer affordable mortgages at subsidized interest rate beginning with public sector workers.

Their goods are transported by road, their workers are educated in schools, their customers are part of sophisticated networks taking in the private sector, the public sector and charities.

«Tomorrow, as thousands of public sector workers learn their fates, the one - man scourge of the Tories will not be on a demo, or a picket line, or even in a TV studio.

«The party must be careful about the implications of the failure to break through in Scotland, among public sector workers and in seats with large numbers of ethnic voters Main Cameron spent # 111 getting every extra Conservative vote»

With a slim majority of all union workers employed in the public sector, the conservative class war amounts to dragging unionized public employees down to the level of contingent no - benefits workers before they can leverage their power to help private sector workers raise their own workplace standards.

A series of strikes in the culture and heritage sector opens with walkouts by British Library workers on Thursday (16) and Friday (17), the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

Mr Cameron accused the chancellor of a «craven surrender» in allowing these workers to retire at 60 - Lord Turner is expected to call for a general rise in retirement age to 67 - and argued that any pensions scheme must be equitable for private and public sector workers.

When this Conservative government bans public sector strikes (FFS Vince Cable is in favour of banning private sector strikes), or when they go in heavy handed against public sector workers striking to protect their livelihood then I will like to see you explain how «liberal» this Conservative government is.

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.

'' The NHF is a scheme into which Nigerian workers in the public and private sector, earning a minimum of N3, 000 per annum, contribute 2.5 per cent of their monthly income.

«It is on record that we have never, since the inception of this administration, had any dispute with the organized labour and I will be the first to admit that the Labour Unions in Lagos State have been most responsible and while, at the same time, being dogged in their advocacy for the promotion of the interests of workers in Lagos State, both in the public and private sector groups.

Only 46 per cent of this group agree that the proposed cuts are «necessary and unavoidable» — well below the average for all voters (63 per cent) and lower even than among public sector workers in the seat (59 per cent).

Almost half of all public sector workers are not union members while just one - in - seven workers in the private sector have joined a trade union.

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.

This demonstrates that most workers in the public sector do not want to lose a day's pay by striking but are being forced to do so by a minority in their union who have been wound up by the militant and ideologically - driven desires of union barons.

Thousands of public sector workers from across the North East are taking part in a 24 - hour strike today.

In the age of austerity, where we'll be asking frontline public sector workers to help us keep pay levels down we can not leave the pay of public sector bureaucrats untouched.

«It has to be seen in the context of the decision to limit public sector workers» pay increases to one per cent and the fact that some private sector workers have had their pay cut.»

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

A report by Policy Exchange published last week claimed that public sector workers are better off than their private sector counterparts in terms of hours worked, retirement age and pension quality.

Conference asserts that public sector pensions are a significant element of the remuneration package for five million public service workers and are, therefore, a substantial part of pension provision in the UK.

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 alonIn 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 alonin 2005 - 06 alone.

This is an indication that if Labour were in power now, while they wouldn't be cutting so hard and fast, they would effectively cut the pay of public sector workers.

He noted that workers in corporate Ghana, both the private and public sectors wear tags so there is nothing wrong with the tagging of Fulanis.

Controversial UK Government plans to introduce different pay rates for public sector workers in different parts of the UK have so far dominated today's meeting of the Welsh Grand Committee.

Some facts are already depressingly familiar: the spending review will put half a million public sector workers out of a job; another half a million people in the private sector are expected to be fired as the economy slows.

But in its moments of greatest peril the nation turns to its public sector workers.

[56] In January 1979, Britain was hit by a series of public sector worker strikes that came to be known as the «Winter of Discontent.»

«The way to build a stronger economy and fairer society, where everyone has opportunity to get on in life, is not to punish public sector workers outside of London and the south east.»

«Action by the Liberal Democrats within the UK Coalition killed off any suggestion of regional pay within the UK, but now Welsh public sector workers face a new threat to their pay and conditions from Labour politicians in our town halls.