Sentences with phrase «up public sector cuts»

«The shadow chancellor has wrapped up public sector cuts, public sector pay freezes, a rise in retirement age and reduced pension rights in warm words that will ring hollow with Britain's army of public sector workers.»

Not exact matches

The ground is being prepared for a neoliberal «cure»: cutting back pensions and health care, defaulting on pension promises to labor, and selling off the public sector, letting the new proprietors to put up tollbooths on everything from roads to schools.

Or perhaps Andy Burnham will liven things up with a call to resist public sector cuts by arming the workers... you never know.

First is the Labour party's response to Tory cuts is summed up by Alistair Darling as an «ideological war against the public sector».

New York Democrats passed a bill to shore up public - sector dues collections, limit employees» ability to cut off the unions representing their workplaces, and «deter the federal government's attempts to dismantle unions.»

After Jeremy Corbyn had finished interrogating the prime minister over disability cuts and public sector pay, the wildcard Conservative backbencher Michael Fabricant popped up to ask a question.

We need a plan B for the economy because yesterday's figures showed the private sector isn't creating jobs fast enough to pick up public sector job cuts.

The BRC's warning will make uncomfortable reading for ministers, as the coalition has staked its economic policy of cutting spending on the projection that the private sector will be able to soak up a great deal of the job losses from public services, which will result from the spending review revealed on October 20th.

They predicted that even though the private sector will create 1.5 million jobs over the next five years it will not be sufficient to negate public sector job cuts, bring down unemployment or mop up new entrants to the labour market.

«These worrying figures show that the private sector is not yet creating enough jobs to make up for the posts that are being cut in the public sector.»

Joblessness went up by 35,000 in the three months to October, raising concern about the readiness of the market for public sector cuts.

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

Mr Barber's latest attack on the government comes as his organisation prepares for the «TUC Day of Action» on November 30th when up to three million workers will take part in stoppages, meetings and rallies in protest over the government's decision to cut public sector pensions.

But the opposition parties warn it's a ticking time bomb that will herald a new wave of public sector job cuts and provoke a downgrade of Ontario's debt rating, jacking up borrowing costs that are already consuming about $ 11 billion a year — its fourth - largest expense.

Private Sector demand is up by 22 % from a year ago due to the public sector job cuts.