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marked by controversy as many staff feel that the process has been driven by the need to make cuts due to council's 9 million budget deficit. Mr Brown said the process descended into further shambles more recently when he was contacted by a group of

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />SF mayor asks dept heads to take bigger pay cuts
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is calling on more department chiefs to take pay cuts to help the city...
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6 million deficit this next fiscal year, the Chico City Council will consider approving $6.7 million in cuts over the next two years at an all-day meeting Tuesday primarily focused on the budget. The council will consider the budget recommendations of

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for saying those in the 'greatest need' would have to bear the brunt of Britain's attempts to pay off the budget deficit

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BELVIDERE ? Boone County departments could face 2 percent cuts to their existing 2010 budgets. The Boone County Finance Committee hopes to challenge department heads to slash at least $260,000 after the rise in the county?s budget deficit

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out how it will conduct this year's spending review as it prepares the public sector for big cuts in funding to help tame a record budget deficit. Conservative finance minister George Osborne and his Liberal Democrat deputy Danny Alexander will announce

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Prime Minister David Cameron warned "painful" cuts will be needed to tackle Britain's budget deficit. Cameron said the country's economic problems were "even worse" than thought and the cuts needed to correct it will affect

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Angela Merkel unveils Germany's largest programme of public sector cuts
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Public sector pay frozen and retirement age raised Spain Budget deficit 11.2 per cent. Public sector pay cut by...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Pakistan Imposes Tax on Shares to Cut Budget Deficit
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June 5 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan imposed taxes on shares and electronic appliances and announced a pay cut for ministers to ...
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budget deficit and slashes services across the State, IHSS faces a proposed 60% cut, or $750 million. Painful cuts have hit all departments from health to education. State leaders say cuts are inevitable. However in-home care providers, including Chuck

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of thousands of Romanian public workers are expected to go on strike on Monday to protest against sweeping wage cuts the government is making to reduce the budget deficit. Cartel Alfa union leader Bogdan Hossu says some 700,000 doctors, medical staff,

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Tens of thousands of Romanian public workers have gone on strike, protesting hefty wage cuts meant to reduce the country's budget deficit. The workers walked off the job Monday, the same day the ruling Democratic Liberal Party submitted a plan to slash

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Ministers have approved ?20.8 billion in budget cuts for 2011-2012 to protect Italy from the market speculation that pushed Greece to the brink of bankruptcy. The measures seek to reduce the budget deficit to below 3% of gross

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The UK has announced its public spending cuts for the year 2010, and they take aim at a bloated budget and rising deficit. The cuts target a broad range of government activities, including child services and ministerial benefits

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" Alex Kostiuk, a Passaic commuter, said her ticket went up $8. "I don't have a big salary and I'm just out of college," she said. Riders have protested the service cuts before, but agency officials say with $300 million budget deficit, they had to make

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* Unions say up to 60,000 could rally in Bucharest * Pay cuts crucial for IMF deal and budget deficit financing * Demonstration is key test for government reform drive BUCHAREST, May 19 (Reuters) - Romanian authorities closed off parts of central

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Spanish unions decided to delay a one-day public sector strike to protest wage cuts to June 8 as they wait for more details on the government's austerity measures aimed at reining in the budget deficit.Last week the government said it would

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MADRID, May 17 (Reuters) - Spanish unions have decided to delay a public sector strike to protest wage cuts to June 8 as they wait for the government to clarify planned austerity measures aimed at cutting the budget deficit. 'We'll know the details of

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Raleigh, N.C. Hundreds of people rallied in downtown Raleigh Saturday against more budget cuts to North Carolina public schools. As lawmakers face a projected $788 million budget deficit for the fiscal year that starts in July, education advocates are

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conservative opposition has more than doubled its lead over the ruling Socialists since the government introduced new spending cuts to rein in a budget deficit, an opinion poll showed on Sunday. The Demoscopia poll and a second survey in the Catalan

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Spain's conservative opposition has more than doubled its lead over the ruling Socialist government since new spending cuts were imposed to help rein in a budget deficit, a poll showed on Sunday. The Demoscopia poll published in leading left-wing

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Facing a budget deficit of more than $250,000, the Kalamazoo Municipal Golf Association has instituted pay cuts, reduced expenses and scaled back course maintenance at the three city-owned golf courses it manages

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Passos Coelho drew up steps to reduce the budget deficit by about ?2bn (£1.4bn), half from spending cuts and half from increases in sales, income and profits taxes, a source close to the talks said. The cabinet approved the cuts yesterday afternoon.

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SPAIN?S two biggest unions will stage a one-day public sector strike to protest against wage cuts aimed at bringing the budget deficit under control and preventing Spain following Greece?s path. The unions held almost three hours of talks with Prime

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Spain's lead, aiming to halve its budget deficit by 2011 with a series of tax hikes and salary cuts for public servants

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- The new coalition government said it needs to tackle the 163bn budget deficit but exactly where the cuts and tax hikes will fall are still very much in the air. Analysts have suggested that most departments will be asked to trim spending, with some

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drew up steps to reduce the budget deficit by about ?2 billion (£1.4 billion), half from spending cuts and half from increases in sales, income and profits taxes, a source close to the talks said. The cabinet approved the cuts yesterday afternoon. At

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Pay cuts, VAT hikes and spending freezes: austerity measures for hard-hit countries Greece The stricken country plans to slash its budget deficit from 13.6% of GDP in 2009 to 2

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Britain?s new coalition government cut its own pay by five percent on Thursday in a sign of the tough medicine the country faces to bring down a record budget deficit. The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats agreed on

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LONDON: Britain's new coalition government cut its own pay by five percent on Thursday in a sign of the tough medicine the country faces to bring down a record budget deficit. The centre-right Conservatives and smaller centrist Liberal Democrats

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13 (Reuters) - Spain's two biggest unions will stage a one-day public sector strike to protest against wage cuts aimed at bringing the budget deficit under control and preventing Spain following Greece's path

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London - Britain's new coalition government cut its own pay by 5% on Thursday in a sign of the tough medicine the country faces to bring down a record budget deficit. The centre-right Conservatives and smaller centrist Liberal Democrats agreed

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The new coalition government cut its own pay by five percent on Thursday in a statement of intent about tackling a record budget deficit. The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats this week agreed on what critics call an

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Sparks firefighters agree to take 7.5 percent permanent pay cut
Reno Gazette Journal
The Sparks Fire Department has reached a tentative agreement with the city manager to take a 7.5 percent permanent pay cut, city officials confirmed today. ...
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With a little nipping and tucking, some modest salary concessions and a smattering of fee increases, Mountain View should manage to wipe out a $4.3 million budget deficit next fiscal year without too many scratches to show for

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Facing a $1.6 million budget deficit, the Plum School District board has begun making cuts. Its first move came last week when it eliminated the public relations position held by Dawn Check over the last decade. Her salary was about $50,000. The vote

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agreed the draft outline of a 24 billion (21 billion) rescue package, which is expected to include savage cuts in civil service wages and state benefits along with hefty tax increases to cut its budget deficit. Final details of the measures were still

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claw back the massive budget deficit , two choices are routinely presented ? substantial increases in taxation, and swingeing cuts in public services. But the former is economically counterproductive, and the latter politically suicidal. The only

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />No pay cut for state workers
Pensacola News Journal
Wynn credited thousands of phone calls from state workers for making the Senate stand by its no-pay-cut position. The House version of the spending plan for ...
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include 11 firefighters. The city has been asking unions and bargaining groups to take a 7.5% permanent pay cut this year and another 7.5% pay cut next year (for a total of 15% cuts) to bridge the budget deficit, but two of the city's large unions

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