Sunday, April 8, 2012

Public sector

  • April 8 (Reuters) - Since 2009, the city of Chesapeake, tucked up against the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia, has cut its workforce twice.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • WASHINGTON • Since February 2010, the nations private employers have added more than 3.9 million jobs, or roughly 164,000 per month. Over the same period, however, some 485,000 government jobs were lost.
  • (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • WASHINGTON - Yes, the economys growing, the unemployment rate is inching down and America is feeling a little bit better about itself.
  • (Pioneer Press)
  • Setting regional pay levels for public sector workers could increase trade union membership and lead to more confrontations over salaries, according to independent pay experts, as the government prepares to introduce localised wage deals.
  • (The Guardian)
  • Over the past years, practical environmental sustainability response has been driven by the private sector. Active participation of both the private and the public sectors is crucial for national economic performance and welfare of the society.
  • (AllAfrica.com)
  • WASHINGTON - Yes, the economys growing, the unemployment rate is inching down and America is feeling a little bit better about itself.
  • (Arizona Daily Star)
  • POTSDAM, Germany — Two million German public-sector workers will get a pay rise of 6.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • The gap in average hourly earnings between public and private sector workers increased to 8.2% in 2011 – the highest level for 10 years – despite the coalition governments efforts to squeeze public sector pay, official figures reveal.
  • (The Guardian)

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