Sentences with phrase «over public sector»

Thomson Reuters says that this suggests that private companies are becoming more aggressive over litigating over public sector contracts.

He voiced an argument made by union supporters through the fight over Senate Bill 5 (and the similar battle in Wisconsin over public sector union rights): All employees want is the right to bargain; they are more than willing to make concessions during these difficult times.

At a press conference this morning, David Cameron's official spokesman has expressed confidence from within Downing Street for reaching a deal with the unions over public sector pensions by the end of the year.

Passengers are being warned to avoid flying tomorrow as airports are dragged into the strike disruption over public sector pension reforms.

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are walking out once again over their public sector pensions, but the government says further resistance is futile.

The government was yesterday warned against «macho posturing» over public sector pay, as union leaders criticised proposals to offer workers three - year pay deals.

Gordon Brown was today warned his «discipline» over public sector pay could see more public sector workers walk out.

Ministers have fixed the terms of negotiations over public sector pensions to seriously undermine the possibility of an agreement being reached.

The unions are threatening to take coordinated action over public sector pay.

The government will remain «very firm» in the face of union strikes over public sector pensions, David Cameron has said.

Putting it another way, does the strike threat (and the reluctance to confirm whether any strike action would fall over the August bank holiday weekend) perhaps part of a sophisticated strategy show that they are a force to be reckoned with as the Sword of Damocles starts to hover over the public sector?

That realisation lent an apocalyptic tinge to events this week, as union members met in London to plan a «mass movement» against cuts — a movement which would kick off with a nationwide strike over public sector pensions.

The new tool is based on an earlier one that the company tested out in fall 2011 during the battle in Ohio over public sector unions, said Stuart Trevelyan, NGP VAN's CEO.

If the stikes over public sector pensions were the determining factor in a decline in popularity for Ed Miliband in LabourList's poll, next month's poll considering whether or not there will be a fallout from the EU treaty for him will be highly anticipated by friends and foes alike.

The TUC has voted at its annual Congress to support co-ordinated strike action over a public sector pay freeze.

The fluffy community campaigners can not hide from the fact they form a government presiding over public sector cuts three times the scale of Thatcher's.

Wednesday's strikes look increasingly likely after further defiance from union chiefs over their public sector pensions clash with the coalition this weekend.

Assistant General Secretary of the TUC, Paul Nowak was optimistic about public support for Thursday's strike over public sector pay, and said: «We believe Britain needs a pay rise - and that applies whether you work in the private or the public sector.»

Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes over public sector pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.

But ministers, currently engaged in a standoff with union officials over public sector pension changes, are unlikely to be willing to make major concessions.

The prime minister's spokesman has been on the defensive when it comes to unions» threat of further strike action over public sector pensions.

The PCS union said ministers had fixed the terms of negotiation over public sector pensions in a way which would seriously undermine the possibility of an agreement being reached.

The largest three - month fall in unemployment since 2000 will help distract ministers from looming strikes over public sector job cuts.

Kuwaiti oil sector employees sit in a shaded area on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay Continue Reading

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

In fact, the private sector offers some advantages over the public sector.

Not exact matches

Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline's head of research and development, Patrick Vallance, is departing the company to head over to the U.K. public sector.

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg reported a clear split among May's most senior colleagues over whether the Conservative government should reverse its position on public sector pay increases.

LONDON — Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that Britain needs a «grown - up» debate over whether pay for public sector workers should be increased, arguing that the government must «hold its nerve» on austerity.

The revelation the state government's Office of Shared Services is to be disbanded after costing taxpayers almost $ 450 million over six years is just the latest in a long line of public sector financial disasters.

RC: If you look at business - to - business and enterprise — especially software as a service — people have gotten very bullish about the sector, and it has retreated about 30 percent in the public markets over the last four to five months.

Perhaps he proposed both initiatives because he was appalled by the behavior of D.C. politicians in the summer scuffle over the debt ceiling and because he believes the public sector right now is incapable of microfinancing in the service of jobs creation.

Awtani added provisioning requirements of public sector undertaking banks have increased with the surge in non-performing assets (NPA) and that there still exists stressed loans in the system which will probably be recognized as NPAs over the coming few quarters.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

Second, private companies «go public» via IPOs, spreading total profits in the economy, as well as earnings in individual sectors, over a larger and larger base of shares.

The public sector has shed over 800,000 jobs over past four years, 700,000 of which were at the local and state government, according to the Federal Reserve.

With a significant cutback in government capacities over the past twenty years, is it even realistic to expect that the public sector can design, fund, operate and maintain needed infrastructure?

Now it's interesting that Canada's international «Brand» has evolved over recent years to increasingly incorporate the attributes of a strong financial services sector and responsible forward thinking public policy.

Latvia set a record in 2008 - 09 by obeying EU Economics and Currency Commissioner Joaquin Almunia's dictate and slashing its GDP by over 25 % and public - sector wages by 30 %.

The hope is that efficiencies IPAB identifies in the public sector bleed over (sorry... bad metaphor in this context) to the private.

There has even been talk of the public broadcaster, (CBC) which receives over $ 1 billion in public funding annually, dropping advertising and ceasing to compete for ad dollars with its private sector rivals.

We have over 80,000 full and part - time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 36 other countries.

«Over the last several years, the tech and innovation sector has been... our most active sector for companies going public.

Today's National Post gave front page coverage to a «study» from the Frontier Centre claiming that wages of public servants have far outstripped those of private sector workers over the past decade.

It will also show that where there is a difference in favor of the public over private sector occupations, it is concentrated in lower waged, female dominate occupations.

IG Metall's campaign follows a 6.3 per cent pay increase over two years secured for 2m public sector workers last month by Ver.di, the services union, after weeks of stoppages.

As for the alleged union effect highlighted by the Frontier Centre, it is true that public sector wage settlements did somewhat exceed private sector settlements over this period, but only by a small amount, and that after a decade in which public sector settlements lagged behind.

The WCI for the public sector increased by 3.9 per cent over the year to the June quarter, compared with an increase of 2.9 per cent for the private sector.

«You can appreciate, then, that as our summer upgrade projects wind down, it continues to be an extreme source of frustration to watch over $ 4 million in funds that the public invested in public education make their way to the private sector.»