Sentences with phrase «on public sector cuts»

Surely Ed Balls is pretty tough on public sector cuts, I suggest.

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This includes changing daylight savings time, cutting working hours of public sector employees and urging residents to scale back on their use of electricity.

Ms. Redford quickly proved those believers wrong with deep funding cuts to colleges and universities and attacks on public sector workers and their collective bargaining rights.

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.

The ground is being prepared for a neoliberal «cure»: cutting back pensions and health care, defaulting on pension promises to labor, and selling off the public sector, letting the new proprietors to put up tollbooths on everything from roads to schools.

The main concerns are cutting the budget and our taxes, enlarging the private sector through either deregulation or public - private partnership, and encouraging greed, on the belief that if all persons are sufficiently greedy there will be no poor.

However, his plans on cuts to the public sector and bringing private firms into the health service go further than she could ever have dreamed.

At a time when the Government are cutting back on public services and relying on the private sector to meet the challenges of providing services to the Community in many of those areas where the public sector cut backs have reduced services, the National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) believes, the news that G4S have failed to meet their target for security personnel at the Olympic Games must leave us all concerned about the future.

As part of the ongoing talks over wider cuts to public sector pensions, ministers have since ruled out any negotiations on the issue.

Moreover, the whole article is founded on the premise that public sector cuts are avoidable, and that only the Tories will make them because they are «wolves in sheeps clothing».

cut international development spending and Labour activists go completely ballistic cut ID cards and get attacked as soft on terror, having wasted billions and being weak cut public sector jobs and have a winter of discontent pull out of Afghanistan and really annoy the Americans

There are many sound political reasons for Labour's endorsement of a public sector pay cap and a more pragmatic stance on the cuts.

On the other hand, however, PM Samaras and his negotiators did present creditors substantiated counterarguments in response to nonsensical austerity measures that would only deepen the recession (cross-cutting public sector job and pension cuts).

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.

Public sector workers in Britain have gone on strike today in a row over pay, pensions, conditions, jobs and spending cuts.

Public sector workers are striking today over a row on pay, conditions, pensions and spending cuts.

Commenting on these latest figures, Noble Francis, Economics Director at the Construction Products Association said: «The construction industry is now firmly back in recession and, although there are some areas of growth, such as private housing, the overall picture shows an industry clearly suffering from the effects of public sector cuts.

Nick Clegg acknowledged Northern Ireland's reliance on public sector jobs makes it especially vulnerable to spending cuts in a speech in the province last night.

It takes a braver person still to do it with a microphone in one hand and a set list full of segments on the merits of privatisation in the NHS and arguments in favour of public sector cuts.

Cutting bureaucracy has been a key theme of the coalition government so far, though a report by PwC earlier this week suggested those public sector job losses could have disastrous knock - on effects in the private sector - which the coalition hopes will lead the recovery.

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.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

Instead of competing with the Tories over cuts, Labour should be demanding a major public sector investment programme of job creation in infrastructure, housing, and service provision funded, not by any increas in public borrowing, but by taxing the 0.1 % super-rich on their # 190bn gains since the crash 4 years ago.

Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are satisfied that he has already shifted the terms of debate leftwards on issues such as the 1 per cent public - sector pay cap — which all of the candidates oppose — and the child tax credit cuts.

Teachers at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, have condemned the Coalition Government's attacks on the pay of public sector workers, which has seen teachers» pay cut by almost 15 %.

President - elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo further pledged to reduce the tax burden on the private sector through lower corporate tax and the removal of import duties and VAT from some items while relying on revenue measures such as improving tax compliance, improving the quality of public finance administration and higher oil and gas production to finance these tax cuts.

Small businesses are more likely than big firms to take on people that have been unemployed in the past 12 months, which could prove vital as public sector cuts really start to bite.

A source close to the mayor said: «It is impossible to justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on pensions at a time of severe public sector cuts and wage freezes.

«David Cameron's claim that he wants to maintain a discussion with the unions is undermined by him saying in the next breath that he's not prepared to negotiate on the specific issue of the change from the RPI to CPI index for public sector pensions - which represents a massive cut in the value of pensions.

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.

They also admit that money cut from pensions will go to the Treasury to help pay off the deficit, not into pension schemes, which the union says amounts to a tax on working in the public sector.

The main civil servants» union, the Public and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face&rPublic and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face&rpublic sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face».

Responding to reports that Danny Alexander will later today (17) announce the government will not change its mind on cutting public sector pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotkapublic sector pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark SerwotkaPublic and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.

More than 200,000 public sector jobs have already been axed or are now on the line since the massive spending cuts began, research from GMB union showed today.

The Pontypridd MP told the Guardian: «I was more than frustrated: I was furious that we were sitting there with a Tory Government that has imposed swingeing cuts on public services, on tax credits, on universal credit, that have smashed women and public sector workers the length and breadth of Britain, and we are taking lectures from them about social justice and economic fairness.

The Tories are dismantling public services and cutting regulations to make us more dependent on the private sector, while rendering the latter less accountable to public scrutiny.

A drawback for Cameron would be that he would have to tread carefully on issues such as welfare and public sector cuts, which are key to Tory plans for cutting the deficit.

The additional cuts to local government, transport and public sector pay will squeeze already - strained public services, making a mockery of the localism agenda and adding more pressure on the cost of living.

After all, it's women of my generation who have arguably been most hurt by the more destructive Tory policies - from cuts to child tax credits to attacks on social care and public sector jobs.

Trade unions have been making their presence felt on the British political agenda today, as Peter Mandelson took the first steps to outline public sector cuts under Labour.

«This year thousands of public sector workers have joined the dole queue, with even more cuts on the cards,» he said.

Contrast that with Mr Cable's clear demand that we must slash spending on public - sector pensions, cut back sharply on our global defence commitments and overhaul the ruinous tax credits system.

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The watchdog recommended a significant increase despite the coalition government cutting spending and imposing austerity on the public sector.

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The construction trades unions added their muscle to the fight against budget cuts and layoffs in the public sector when they rallied at Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza and then marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall in the early afternoon on June 15 in what organizers called a «Solidarity March for the Middle Class.»

More than 200,000 public sector jobs have already been axed or are now on the line since the massive spending cuts began, research from GMB union showed on Sunday.

Blame William Hague for his spineless comments when British jobs were on the line at the Total oil refinery, blame David Cameron for not saying he'd abandon the Lisbon Treaty, and blame George Osborne for talking about public spending cuts at a time when only public sector workers are working.

A very good source tells ConHome that the unions have as much as # 25m to spend on campaigns to oppose cuts in the public sector workforce and in public sector pay.