Sentences with phrase «slash services»

No - one joins the Labour party to slash services.

He says without changes, municipalities have no choice but to cut workers and slash services.

Because otherwise they will end up borrowing a lot more money, shifting costs forward, or having to slash services to make up the difference,» Ward says.

«It comes from a choice to slash taxes for corporations and the super rich and slash services on everybody else, and it's a choice we're used to being made by Republicans like Donald Trump, but for the past eight years, it's a choice that has been made by our Governor Andrew Cuomo,» Nixon continued.

It comes from a choice to slash taxes on corporations and the super rich and slash services on everybody else,» Nixon said, deeming Cuomo a «good investment» for the likes of the Koch brothers, who are prominent political donors.

Prison work is relatively well paid and it offers guards — at least before staff cuts slashed the service - the chance to help prisoners turn a new leaf.

Resulting layoffs and slashed services would ruin the poor and drive away the remaining middle class.

Chancellor George Osborne has ordered cabinet ministers to draw up plans for the 40 per cent spending cuts, which will include slashing services and axing hundreds of thousands of jobs.

The Prime Minister insisted the SNP «wouldn't care» about slashing services for voters in England and Wales — and insisted the only way to stop the party was to return a Conservative government.

A lot of Torontonians are wondering where they will move after the election in October, as the candidates race to the bottom to outdo each other in slashing services, getting rid of bike lanes, building underground highways that make Boston's Big Dig

Not exact matches

His «Common Sense Revolution» in the 1990s slashed spending and pushed ahead with controversial changes to public services that sparked widespread labour unrest and sometimes violent demonstrations.

For example, the company reports it slashed its customer service department in Winnipeg by 75 %, from 800 workers, in favour of a new approach where the people delivering the service are also responsible for keeping the customer happy.

When he assumed the position last June, he promised to slash costs while raising service levels, and he's moved quickly on both fronts: fewer train crews go to work each day, thousands of workers have already been turfed, and CP's remaining fleet is pulling heavier loads.

Did you not realize that the budget for our national weather service has been «slashed,» our inspectors general have been «weakened,» and other scientific research has been «imperiled?»

«If they're charging roughly $ 50 a month, they need to bring in new services similar to high - end clubs or slash their prices,» says Longwell.

It could mean laying off municipal employees, selling off assets, raising fees and scaling back basic services such as trash collection and snow plowing, which have already been slashed.

That spending recommendation — entitled «America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again» — would slash $ 5.8 billion, or about 18 %, from the annual outlay for the National Institutes of Health, and it would cut even more sharply from other programs within the Department of Health and Human Services.

While Amazon has slashed prices and offered new services such as free two - hour delivery on Whole Foods items in select cities, things haven't been so rosy behind the scenes.

Whether it's a short - term strategy such as better - targeted emails, or a long - term bet on delivering better customer service to shoppers, here's how retailers aim to be less focused on price slashing.

Despite early signs of a bottoming out, Moody's Investors Service slashed its oil price forecast for 2016 to $ 33 per barrel, and also put 69 E&P companies in the U.S. under credit review for possible downgrade.

«Had another government been in place, they would have drastically and extremely slashed the necessary supports Albertans need in health care and education and social services, and we would have all been a lot worse off,» Ceci told reporters Thursday.

He slashed the number of research projects, from 6,800 to about 40, and cut costs across the company's PC and printer divisions, focusing instead on building higher - margin software and services businesses.

That's how much the power - to - airport - services group's stock plunged after the loss of fuel - oil contracts led it to slash the dividend and put assets up for sale.

«Now the government is proposing service reductions that will hit northern communities hard, cutting the Discovery Coast Passage Route, and slashing nearly a third of sailings from the Port Hardy — Prince Rupert and Skidegate — Prince Rupert routes,» said Rice.

A group of Afghan vets who went to court to fight the slashing of benefits were informed, in response, that the Harper government has torn up the social contract with vets that has been in place since World War I. Fantino's department, in the midst of all the cutbacks, returned $ 1.13 billion of unspent funds, and then announced that $ 200 million of that would be returned to improve services.

Trevena has called for the government to reverse its short - sighted decision to slash ferry services and instead do the real work needed to put our ferries back on track.

I support the NDP government's decision continue investing in public services and much - needed public infrastructure projects rather than slashing - and - burning, as the opposition conservative would do.

Jason Kenney isn't buying the idea reining in the costs of the Alberta government means slashing and burning and services savaged with masses of nurses and teachers on the bread lines.

Rather than follow a disastrous road taken by some of her predecessors, and slash funding to government services while the price of oil is low, the NDP government is taking an opportunity to invest in much needed public infrastructure when the economy is slow and the price is right.

He isn't buying it.Jason Kenney isn't buying the idea reining in the costs of the Alberta government means slashing and burning and services savaged with masses of nurses...

As yet, however, we have received no response from the employer, who seems to be far more interested in slashing benefits than in delivering quality public services to Canadians.

The Hudak agenda and the Harper agenda don't differ much: slashing public services, breaking unions, rewarding their corporate friends on the backs of working people.

Overall, the effects have been devastating: at this link is a run - down of services that have already been negatively affected by the government's slashing and burning.

Slack adds in Slash Commands to allow users to access third - party apps and services on the team communication app.

Companies including Anadarko Petroleum Corp, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum Corp have saved millions on drilling and fracking wells in Texas, Colorado and North Dakota since the oil price slide started by demanding that oilfield service companies slash prices by 20 percent to 30 percent or more.

Isn't this the same child that inspired the above email that played a key role in her book, and who inspired her to raise the amount of money budgeted for special needs education and services in Alaska, just a year after she slashed a significant portion of such funds?

But massive downsizing, the slashing of real wages and the degeneration of working conditions for public servants have deprived millions of Africans of whatever minimal access to health care, schooling and responsive public services they once had.

Since then, every presidential administration and Congress has attempted to slash funding, primarily because public television — the Public Broadcasting Service — and National Public Radio would not go along to get along.

Woolworths announced plans in May to slash costs by more than $ 500 million and pour the savings into lowering grocery prices and improving service in supermarkets to «neutralise» Coles, which has been outperforming its larger rival for 23 consecutive quarters, and to «contain» Aldi.

He also insists he tanked the seventh game of the First set (in which he tried a slashing shot that spun the ball around his ankles, and also double faulted) in order to try and close out the set on Court's service, which he did one game later.

This comes as a survey reveals budgets for Trading Standards services in England and Wales have been slashed by over 40 % since 2009 (from # 213 m to # 124 m).

We must not forget now trainee journalist George Osborne's threat to wage further austerity on the poorest if the UK chose to leave the EU — nor our previous governments» ideological adherence to slashing any and all public services, whether the NHS, the fire service and community policing, or even free school meals for children.

Firefighters, who were at the Capitol today to lobby for two priority bills, say that like local governments they are hindered by a 2 percent property tax cap and are increasingly running the risk of slashing EMS services if the money to pay for services isn't there.

From May 9 to May 12, thousands of people will be speaking out against Mayor Bloomberg's proposed budget cuts that would slash funding for education and other vital services.

Embattled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate was sentenced to three years» probation, a $ 1,000 fine, 52 weeks of counseling and 250 hours of community service in Queens Supreme Court Friday stemming from a misdemeanor reckless assault charge for an incident in which his girlfriend's face was slashed.

Commenting, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: «Today's announcement is part of a crude drive to slash jobs and cut costs which will leave HMRC unable to deliver quality public services.

Income tax would come up, the health service budget would have to be slashed and we should stay in the dreadful European Union, because economic calamity would be the alternative.

Tuition fees are trebled, university places slashed and youth services cut.

The Home Office runs a Violence Against Women fund worth # 80m over five years, a paltry sum given the needs of the sector and the wholesale slashing of budgets for women's services such as domestic violence shelters.

When Labour's quango, SWPCT, started to slash Pershore services, Wychavon took matters into their own hands.