Sentences with phrase «public sector strike by»

A recent Survation poll found people supported the last public sector strike by 61 % to 31 % and overwhelmingly wanted public sector workers to be paid more.

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Bill 4: An Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services introduced by Labour Minister Christina Gray lifted the ban on strikes by all public sector employees in response to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in 2015.

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

A series of strikes in the culture and heritage sector opens with walkouts by British Library workers on Thursday (16) and Friday (17), the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

David Cameron believes disruption caused by today's public sector strikes is «wrong», his official spokesman said.

This demonstrates that most workers in the public sector do not want to lose a day's pay by striking but are being forced to do so by a minority in their union who have been wound up by the militant and ideologically - driven desires of union barons.

Union leaders said they were «overwhelmed» by support after a strike by public sector workers caused widespread disruption.

[56] In January 1979, Britain was hit by a series of public sector worker strikes that came to be known as the «Winter of Discontent.»

This basically strikes me as a charm offensive by NYSUT at a time when Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his allies have been demonizing the public sector unions are largely responsible for the state's fiscal mess.

Labour's silence on tomorrow's public sector strikes shows it has been bought off by the trade unions, David Cameron has said.

Unions have warned that strikes by public sector workers in the row over pensions will continue following a day of walkouts and protests.

David Cameron, Michael Gove and other Government figures have been depicted in a variety of unflattering manners by striking public sector workers today.

Mr Barber suggested coordinated strike action, the possibility of which was also aired by Bob Crow of the RMT and Mark Serwotka at the civil servants» union PCS - the latter of whom said he would be planning joint industrial action across the public sector if his pleas fall on deaf ears.

He was stuck on repeat (literally) attacking public sector workers driven to strike by the government, leaving it to PCS leader Mark Serwotka and the BBC's Evan Davis to shred Francis Maude's fatally flawed arguments.

Asked by chairman Toby Helm, the political editor of the Observer, if there were any circumstances under which Miliband would support a major public sector strike, Thornberry said yes, «we are Labour.»

The move was denounced as a «democratic outrage» by the TUC, who said it would effectively end the right to strike in the public sector at a time when Conservatives are planning pay restraint and large - scale job cuts.

MORI's poll asked if people supported strike action by «people in a numbre of public sector jobs» over job cuts, pay levels and pension reductions — they found 48 % in support, 48 % against (Ipsos MORI, 19th June.)

He was stuck on repeat (literally) attacking public sector workers driven to strike by the government, leaving it to PCS leader Mark Serwotka and the BBC's -LSB-...]

[38] The Mirror's continued support of the Labour government was in spite of its falling popularity over the previous few months which had been the result of the Winter of Discontent, where the country was crippled by numerous public sector strikes.

At a fringe meeting organised by the GMB union, Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, said the unions should not be threatening strike action over cuts to public sector pensions.

But the right to bargain collectively is offset by the law's denial to public sector unions of labor's major lever to achieve its bargaining goals — the strike.

Strikes are already being threatened by a number of unions, including those representing British Airways cabin crew, Royal Mail staff, and a number of public sector employees, including the BBC.

So all credit to shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith who said yesterday that public sector pay had been frozen «for too long» and that the upcoming strike on Thursday by teachers was «entirely legitimate»:

Dyring the 90 minute live programme, the Tory leader said a # 73,000 Lexus purchased by Hull police was a «striking example» of public sector waste.

The strike was alongside action by five other public sector unions, but other teachers» unions did not take part.

The trial judge, Justice D.P. Ball, concluded that the right to strike was a fundamental freedom protected by s. 2 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that the prohibition on the right to strike in the PSESA substantially interfered with the s. 2 (d) rights of the affected public sector employees.