Sentences with phrase «public workers need»

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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.

It could also have a public benefit if it lessens the need for governments to build highways designed for rush - hour commuting or for workers to spend $ 100 a week or more on transportation, parking, coffee, lunches and so on.

Going forward we need to implement public policy that eases the burdens young workers now face.

In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, I crudely calculated that we need about one million more full - time federal workers by 2035 in order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administration.

Alongside Novak's picture of the abundance which capitalism produces there needs to be placed another equally significant image — that of decaying, broken - down bus and railway systems; underpaid teachers, policemen, firemen and social workers; overcrowded and understaffed public hospitals; jails and rehabilitation facilities extended far beyond their reasonable capacities.

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

In the same way that the energy industry today is mistakenly identified with «Big Oil» (Exxon, Chevron, et al.), when it is in fact conducted predominantly by smaller independent companies most readers will have never heard of, modern capitalism is not largely the purview of Apple and Walmart, but rather of small, privately owned businesses with less than one hundred employees providing services or products the public wants or needs in order to support the families of the owners and provide jobs for their workers.

In order to win next year, Cameron needs to persuade at least some of the millions of public sector workers currently living under a one per cent pay freeze that their living standards will improve as well.

Ethical culture overlaps with the public - service ethos: for reasons that are blandly uncontroversial (everyone wants better standards of service - quality and delivery) but also partisan and contentious (better standards in a fiscally - straightened world need to come at higher cost to public - sector workers and lower cost to tax - payers) this leads the standards agenda into highly - contested territory.

Thirdly, I think there is a lot to be learned from Catholic Social Teaching, and Labour needs to ensure that it appeals to people who are not public sector workers.

Julio Rhymer, the executive director of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, quibbles with that, saying the public utility had long - established plans to bring in hundreds of utility workers after the storms but needed to phase in their arrival on the islands in an orderly fashion.

Anne Spadone, Superintendent of the Lackawanna City school district, added, «Lackawanna Public Schools is very excited to be part of this pilot program, having a CPS worker housed within our district will add a new dimension as we directly link our students with the very critical services needed.»

As they have in Ireland, senior staff in the public sector need to show leadership so they can deliver pay restraint needed from ordinary workers.

The President of the state worker union the Public Employees Federation, Ken Brynien, says he's pleased that the governor seems to realize that state government can not continue in its current form, after years of budget cuts and staff attrition, and that it needs to be reorganized.

Ministers need to show public sector workers — and the people who rely upon those services — that they are serious about finding a way forward.

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.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Perez - Williams said she would get to work immediately by creatively utilizing city workers, from police department to the department of public works, to better respond to the needs of the poor and children.

Also, last year, about half of all low - income workers in New York City «were unaware of their right to paid sick days,» according to the CSS report, which suggests the sustained need for public awareness efforts.

Commenting on the topic of the symposium, Comrade Sunmonu noted that the NLC chose the topic - «the change Nigeria needs and the role of workers in the process of change» to educate and enlighten the public on the role of government to effect positive change they voted for.

«Access to drivers licenses for undocumented workers and raising the welfare grant above the poverty line are policies that all working people should support because most of us will need public support at some point in our lives,» said Hawkins.

Looking at the government negotiating team, Unite found an average public sector worker would need to work for three working lifetimes to earn Francis Maude's pension and two for Danny Alexander's pension.

longer support «lavish benefits to public workers and those in need of public services because budgets must be slashed.

An outside review of New York's $ 178 billion pension fund for public workers shows it has been managed responsibly for the past three years but needs more staff and higher pay to continue the quality performance and cut costs for outside advisers.

I think of our emergency services and armed forces working to keep people safe; our NHS staff, care workers, and all those keeping our public services going; and the many volunteers who are giving their time to help those in need.

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

«David Cameron's negotiations are a missed opportunity to make the case for the real reforms the EU needs: democratisation, stronger workers» rights, an end to austerity and a halt to the enforced privatisation of public services.»

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

While Ms Owers praised the prison workers who were «committed to improvement and who are working hard to achieve a decent environment», she hoped the investigation would provide «the pointers for what needs to be done, as well as indicating to ministers and the public the scale of the challenge in our overcrowded and pressurised local prisons».

Ros Altmann, an independent pension adviser who helped set up a rescue scheme for workers in crashed companies, said unions needed to recognise that final salary schemes were unaffordable in the private or the public sector.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

Governor Cuomo pulled back a bit from his plan to offer, for the first time, a 401k style option for newly hired public workers, saying he's «flexible» on it, but the governor does say he's not bending on the need for a new pension tier with lowered benefits that produces «maximum amount of savings».

There are at least a dozen important posts that need to be filled before the Senate goes home in June, including seats on the SUNY board, Workers» Compensation Board, Board of Parole and Public Service Commission.

This same Howie, a second shift UPS worker near Syracuse proposes a state funded WPA jobs program to employ unused labor to meet community needs in public works and services.

But union leaders say the Triborough Amendment provides needed bargaining leverage for workers, compensating for a provision in state law that forbids strikes by public employees.

There will be more hunger, more homelessness, more public and mental health needs that go unmet, fewer protections for workers, and a rise in poverty,» the county executive added in his statement.

«We need to enhance workers rights and support cooperatives and public enterprises that distribute the fruits of labor according to work, not ownership,» Hawkins said.

Buffalo Niagara will never climb out of poverty as long as women make less than men, minorities can't get business and fulltime workers need public aid just to survive.

The devastation caused by Hurricane Irene should be clear evidence why we need smart, dynamic, caring and dedicated public workers on the job every day.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

We need to be manning the picket lines and making the case for public sector workers however we can.

Teachers and other public workers will continue to hear about the heavy burden they put on taxpayers and the need for «shared sacrifice.»

For that he needs to take time to persuade the public hes not going to risk public finances or make thousands of public sector workers unemployed from day 1.

West Africa needs doctors to run treatment and holding centers; virologists to do laboratory diagnostics; epidemiologists to dissect the major factors affecting the outbreak, which would lead to effective public health measures; public health workers to help implement these measures; and educators to work with the public and improve communications.

«An accurate, rapid, point - of - care test would help public health workers better focus resources quickly on the individuals who need it — including providing directly observed therapy — and avoid unnecessary medications and isolation in those who don't,» Belknap says.

Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.

Ten to 12 new centers may be selected this year to share in the $ 5 million that is expected to be available, and interested institutions will need to reach out to geographical areas where there is little access to education for public health workers.

«These are not workers who go on strike at the drop of a hat; it takes a lot to get them into a situation where they feel they need to take action,» says Anthony Keenan, a spokesman for the CSIRO Staff Association, which is affiliated with the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU).

«Needs, risks of low - wage workers and the impact on public health.»