Sentences with phrase «taken by public sector workers»

Labour leader Ed Miliband said the industrial action taken by public sector workers today was «a sign of failure on signs».

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By contrast, measures that come down hard on public sector workers — a primarily Conservative preoccupation — took up almost an entire page.

Their goods are transported by road, their workers are educated in schools, their customers are part of sophisticated networks taking in the private sector, the public sector and charities.

A survey by Unison, revealed that public sector workers now live in fear that spending cuts will mean unemployment - and this is starting to take it's toll in people defecting to the private sector.

Public sector workers have their pensions protected, even if another provider takes over the service, under «fair deal» rules agreed by Labour in the late 1990s.

On average, the number of sick days used by public sector employees is nearly three times that of private sector workers, who took an average of three days off in 2008, the New York Post reported Thursday.