Sentences with phrase «of vital public services»

Chris Keates: «Once again we see the stark reality of the Government's economic austerity policy and deregulation which is impacting adversely on the provision of vital public services».

This in turn would reduce revenues to governments that support a wide range of vital public services.

EDMONTON — Alberta families should not have to pay for the PCs neglect of vital public services.

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Paul Murphy, an Irish member of the European parliament, decried the secrecy of the negotiations, saying they had «been driven by Canadian and European multinationals and agrobusiness that want market access and access to vital public services so they can profit at the expense of working - class people.»

Speaking at the time, Sir Leslie Turnberg, Chairman of the UK Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) commented: ³ The vital importance of infectious disease surveillance is clear from the global increase in infectious diseases and the looming threat of antibiotic resistance... The effectiveness of the PHLS is beyond question, and the astonishingly swift identification of the cause of the recent outbreak of salmonellosis from powdered baby milk undoubtedly saved many babies from becoming ill.

The public gets it and the Legislature should start listening to what they want instead of making cuts that will devastate the state's vital services.»

«It's a record of failing to stand up to for working people and backing policies that are putting vital public services like the NHS at risk.

«We've got to go on reducing that and go on funding the things we do care most about including our vital public services like the NHS and investment in the infrastructure, the capital backbone of the country, that are going to create the jobs of the future.»

The Democrats have said they plan to give the money to the Child Care Council because vital public services like child care suffered because of the scandal.

The staff of Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) wishes to bring to the notice of the general public the likelihood of our inability to provide Air Traffic Services in the Accra Flight Information Region (FIR — Accra Airspace) due to unavailability of land for the installation of vital safety equipment for Communication, Surveillance, and other Navigational Aids.

My thanks go out to the Department of Health and their partners for providing this vital public health service to residents.

New York State AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes and presidents of the leading public employee unions will hold a news conference to discuss implications of property tax cap legislation on public employees, vital public services and all New Yorkers.

The news that potentially thousands of people have died as a consequence of the policies, decisions and structures set up under the last Labour Government is breath - taking and demonstrates so clearly why well meaning platitudes are just not enough when it comes to delivering vital public services.

The Shadow Chancellor will call for a Budget that deals with the growing emergency faced by working families and our vital public services, which have been left in crisis after seven years of Tory austerity.

Testament to its failure to deliver prosperity or improvements in vital public services, is Labour's management of the NHS, which remains the poor man of the United Kingdom.

«As the Paradise Papers revealed yet again, the Tories have created an economy in which the rich elite at the top do better than ever, while the rest of us have to live with our vital public services teetering on the brink.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

A de Blasio spokesperson said Flanagan's proposal «would add an arbitrary, unnecessary and restrictive cap to the New York City property tax code — which already has a number of existing caps — and cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT: «The Liberal Democrats are right to raise concerns about the cuts to the pay of those who are delivering vital public services».

«Strategic investments that improve and promote public transportation services are vital for supporting community mobility,» New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Matthew J. Driscoll said.

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.

The Human Rights Act can improve the quality of public services and so, is a vital tool for individuals and communities.

This campaign believed in what we, as a union, bring to the state of New York and highlighted the need for respect for public services, while speaking out against the negative impact of privatization and diminishment of vital state services.

NYC's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provides a vital service in inspecting and evaluating early childhood centers, but much remains to be done to convey the results of their work to parents and the general public.

Of the proposal to create special tax districts on developments near transit expansions, an idea known as value capture, Mr. de Blasio said such a move would «blow a hole in the city's budget» and allow the state to raid the city's property tax revenue, forcing him to cut back on vital services such as education or public safety.

Voter apathy reveals the failures of devolution in such vital areas as education, public service management and the control of paramilitary violence

The Legislature must add the funding necessary to eliminate the Governor's proposed cuts in vital public services that are essential to the well - being of working families and the needy.

«Like many people I have seen the worst impacts of Tory policies with cuts to vital public services.

«Vital services that we all rely on and public sector workers should not be sacrificed to some sorry game of political chess.

«New York's working families who rely on vital public services such as education and health care are not breathing a sigh of relief from the so - called property tax relief recommendations presented today by the state's Tax Relief Commission,» said Stated United Teachers President Dick Ianuzzi.

I am proud of the work done by the Legislature to identify areas where we can save costs and reprioritize funding to support critical services, including public safety, road work and other vital departments.

Casualties of the Chancellor's budget The battles lines have been drawn in the government's first budget, and public sector workers, the vital services they provide, and the poor, sick and vulnerable people who depend on them, are in the firing line, writes Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, for Channel 4 News.

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, said: «The bill on halving the public deficit should not be seen as a green light to slash and privatise vital public serPublic and Commercial Services union, said: «The bill on halving the public deficit should not be seen as a green light to slash and privatise vital public sServices union, said: «The bill on halving the public deficit should not be seen as a green light to slash and privatise vital public serpublic deficit should not be seen as a green light to slash and privatise vital public serpublic servicesservices.

IMAGINATION The minister will warn that the country needed to wake up to the «hideous reality of austerity Conservatism» in which Mr Cameron's party planned to hack billions of pounds from vital public services.

The budget also extends the millionaire's tax that was due to expire at the end of this year, preserving billions of dollars in annual revenue for schools and other vital public services.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman condemned the budget measures, calling the announcement «a Tory Budget that will throw people out of work, that will hold back economic growth and will harm vital public services.»

«Eight years of Tory austerity, which Labour will bring to an end, have had a disastrous effect on our vital public services and workers have paid a heavy price in the cost of living and their working lives.

One of my central priorities will be to aggressively exercise the Public Advocate's role in reviewing the performance of City agencies and developing proposals to improve vital services on which New Yorkers depend.

«About 20 per cent of public sector investment is actually invested directly in the public sector and large proportions of public sector budgets go on employing public servants to deliver vital frontline services,» said Nicola Smith, senior policy officer at the TUC.

With smoking being the biggest preventable cause of oral cancer, Cancer Research UK is also calling on the public and local councillors to help protect vital Stop Smoking Services.

There is a clash of ideas occurring in education right now between those who believe that public education is not only a fundamental right but a vital public service, akin to the public provision of police, fire protection, parks, and public libraries, and those who believe that the private sector is always superior to the public sector.

Their leadership will ensure the nation's public schools fulfill a vital role in the implementation of new programs and services to prepare students for success in the workforce.

The proposal redirects hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools — often, school districts that rely most heavily on federal aid, forcing them to cut vital services or raise local property taxes.»

The state has essentially taken over Chicago Public Schools» special ed program after a five - month investigation documented systemic delays and denials of vital services for children, in violation of federal law.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said the cuts would have a «devastating impact on vital public services including education».

She noted that the AFT, as part of its recognition of the vital role of public employees around the world, has joined with the Council of Global Unions in the worldwide «Quality Public Services — Action Now!&public employees around the world, has joined with the Council of Global Unions in the worldwide «Quality Public Services — Action Now!&Public Services — Action Now!»

However, while vital programs are cut, the companies that own Connecticut's twenty - three (23) charter schools will be given more than $ 100 million in scarce public funds this year even though these privately owned, but publicly funded, schools refuse to educate their fair share of students who require special education services and students who need additional help with the English Language.

Tomorrow — February 24, 2016 — the Connecticut General Assembly's Education Committee will be holding a public hearing on legislation that Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor Wyman submitted as part of their destructive proposed state budget, a spending plan that that coddles the rich while making massive cuts to vital health, human service and education programs.

The candidate who falsely claimed that the state budget was balanced and that, if re-elected, he wouldn't make cuts to social services or raise taxes is now instructing his Democratic colleagues in the State Senate and State House of Representatives that not only must they make historic cuts to vital health and human services, while raising tax on the middle class, but that he will only accept a budget that includes funding for two new charter schools while the new budget cuts funding for the state's public schools.

Taxes going up, vital services being cut, but low and behold, public funds are flowing ever faster into Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.