Sentences with phrase «on public sector workers»

In every area, the left has attempted to portray the case for reform as an attack on public sector workers.
By contrast, measures that come down hard on public sector workers — a primarily Conservative preoccupation — took up almost an entire page.
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.
While Ed Miliband floats around the country playing the role of a man with integrity, it's worth noting that despite «marching for the alternative» a few years ago with the people he claims to represent, he turned his back on public sector workers and those on «Workfare», whilst allowing changes to employment law to go through virtually unchallenged, allowing the coalition to force through it's anti-worker agenda.
The row began over the weekend when shadow chancellor Ed Balls said a future Labour government would retain the coalition's pay squeeze on public sector workers.
The group wishes to lay more emphasis on the public sector worker, particularly the teachers» point of view and indeed it has become very urgent and imperative for these facts to be put out there in order for discerning minds to make an informed decision on election day.
After all, Darling had announced a one per cent, two year pay cap and pensions cap on public sector workers.
Her Del - Boypolitics will undermine the trades union campaign against the Tory Government «sattacks on public sector workers
The TUC, the statement said, joined public sector unions and their members against any attempt by the government to impose a pension scheme on public sector workers, saying the TUC, in collaboration with public sector unions, shall use all means to resist such an imposition.
At the heart of the case was the issue of whether agency fees infringe on public sector workers» First Amendment rights to political speech.
The assault on teachers, part of a larger assault on public sector workers throughout Wisconsin that began late last winter, has had devastating consequences for education.
Threats to national pay structures are yet another unjustified attack on public sector workers and will hit spending power hard in the poorest areas of the country.
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.
The PCS union believes backing strike action is «the only way» to resist the government's «unprecedented attacks» on public sector workers.
Unite has published a «dossier of hypocrisy» exposing the pensions of cabinet ministers at the heart of the coalition's attack on public sector workers.
A colleague says she was «very distraught» over Gov. Scott Walker's attacks on public sector workers and public education.
Despite what the Conservatives have always maintained, public services are not inherently inefficient, but years of so - called reforms, continuous restructuring and top - down interference, combined with virulent attacks on public sector workers, have seriously damaged morale in the sector and virtually destroyed a vital public service ethos.
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