YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 %
of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).
Not exact matches
«We could not even
think of abolishing the 50p rate on the rich while at the same time I am asking many
of our
public sector workers to accept a pay freeze to protect their jobs.
Ordinary voters will only be alarmed if they
think Tory policy is actually more destructive rather than being worried if a few nurses and policemen lose their jobs (they're far more likely to worry about their own jobs and security than that
of public sector workers).
I
thought he wanted to get rid
of underperforming
public sector workers.
«We could not even
think of abolishing the 50p [tax] rate on the rich while at the same time I am asking many
of our
public sector workers to accept a pay freeze to protect their jobs,» he said.
But we could not even
think of abolishing the 50p rate on the rich while at the same time I am asking many
of our
public sector workers to accept a pay freeze to protect their jobs.
I have said before that I
thought it was right for short - term commitments to be in line with the coalition spending plans, as changes inevitably produce disturbance to business cycles, but that doesn't prevent Labour from saying that long - term they would seek to ameliorate the concerns
of public sector -
workers, e.g. future pay increases would be above inflation to restore the earning power that was lost through the recession.
Think Progress (which made the following infographic) reports, «In 2011, only 11 percent
of private
sector workers and 17 percent
of public workers reported they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.»