Archive: Cuts

Firefighters lobby MPs over cuts

Firemen are no strangers to industrial dispute

Hundreds of firefighters from across the country came to lobby parliament today amid fears over cuts to jobs and services.

Comment: Women are shock absorbers for cuts

Never-ending austerity? More cuts to come after 2015

Unions lobby MPs over school building cuts

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PCS: Fraud risk heightened by cuts to charity regulator

Good causes could lose billions of pounds a year to fraud if cuts to the charity regulator go through, the Public and Commercial Services union is warning.

NASUWT: Health and safety cuts put lives at risk

The Coalition Government’s ‘reckless’ and ‘simplistic’ attitude to health and safety threatens to put the lives of children and adults in schools and colleges at risk, representatives at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, will argue today.

Unite: Southampton first council offering to reverse pay cuts

The Labour controlled Southampton City Council is the first council to offer to reverse pay cuts imposed by the previous Tory-led council since the coalition government came to power.

Unite warns savage cuts will unleash a "poverty whirlwind" on our communities

The leader of the country’s biggest union warned today (Saturday October 20) ahead of the anti-austerity march that a ‘poverty whirlwind’ will sweep through Britain’s communities if this government presses on with plans to impose savage cuts.

Never-ending austerity? More cuts to come after 2015

Austerity is set to run well past next election

The coalition will have to complete its austerity drive with 97% spending cuts and just three per cent tax rises in the two years after 2015, a think-tank has warned.

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Morrissey attacks 'Nazi' spirit of British Olympics

Morrissey has only harsh words for the Olympics

After a weekend of Team GB victories, a lone voice emerged today lambasting the Olympics for a "blustering jingoism" and "foul patriotism" reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

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