Sentences with phrase «workers facing cuts»

Martin had agreed to hold his pay at # 141,868 along with cabinet ministers this year, in recognition of dire economic conditions that have left millions of private - sector workers facing cuts.

Not exact matches

Wal - Mart raises its lowest wage to $ 11 an hour, crediting tax cuts and facing competition for workers

When Governor Cuomo faced a $ 10 billion budget deficit upon taking office in 2011, he pushed an austerity budget of cuts and caps to spending, taxes, and state workers, claiming, «I am a progressive who's broke.»

In the foreword to the report, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: «Alongside these devastating cuts, youth workers have simultaneously faced attacks on their very profession itself.

Tube workers facing the prospect of hundreds of job cuts will not take this lying down and Londoners can expect months if not years of strikes and disruption as these proposals are fought.

«The union stepped in because it was wrong that workers condemned to an agonising death and their grieving loved ones were facing their compensation being so drastically cut.

The main civil servants» union, the Public and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face».

PCS members at the Equality and Human Right Commission are fighting cuts to budgets and staff that will mean up to 250 of the commission's 400 experienced workers face redundancy, while highly paid management consultants are retained.

States are cutting workers to balance their budgets, while new - found fiscal discipline among those facing reelection has put a lid on what Congress will spend to counter local layoffs.

Faced with devastating budget cuts from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and a deeply hostile electorate, New York's most influential public - employee unions have unexpectedly shifted their strategy for defending cherished government programs and worker benefits.

And while the Administration for Children's Services will not be losing its most experienced case workers, they will face layoffs well as cuts to services, including reduced vouchers for childcare, members said.

The state faces an unfunded liability of over $ 100 billion across its five different retirement systems, and pension benefits have already been cut down to the bone for new workers.

«State workers were facing devastating budget cuts, which of course would also mean deep cuts for workers and services throughout the state,» Weingarten says.

Beginning in 2018 they will receive rate cuts amounting to $ 2 billion annually, while injured workers face their mandated losses being made permanent with benefits administered in a way that reflects the reduced revenue coming into the system.

Does the new Funding Review mean injured workers will once again face benefit cuts as a result of a false financial crisis?