Sentences with phrase «on vital public services»

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

«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.

«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.

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«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.»

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.

«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.

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».

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.

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

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.

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.

Organizations from Buffalo to Binghamton to Brooklyn signed on to letters that were sent to New York's Congressional delegation, warning that these cuts would devastate core public services that provide New Yorkers in need with vital support.

«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.

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.»

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.

«For many tribal members who live in remote areas and rely heavily on public transportation, this funding will help ensure continued access to vital services they need.»

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.

In a major victory, we helped convince the state Public Service Commission to re-examine the need for a destructive desalination plant on Haverstraw Bay, a vital river habitat.

Advising on the pension implications arising from staff transfers due to the proposed creation of subsidiary or Teckal organisations or joint venture partnerships with private and third sector organisations to deliver vital public services (ranging from the provision of public health services to large regional Local Authority waste projects).

«We are working exceptionally hard on access and diversity issues, which we believe are vital if barristers are to continue to provide services to the public of the highest quality,» he added.

Several commenters writing on behalf of state or local governments asserted that public employers would respond to the proposed salary level increase by cutting vital services or increasing taxes.