Vauxhall victimisations
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nnoenced sanage 8% out in civil sernice jobs.
There malt be a loss of 40,000 jobs over the next three years.
This is on top of 20,000 jobs already cut by the 3month recruitment ban imposed by the Tories soon after they were elected.
The government have said that although most of the cuts will be achieved by natura! wastage they cannot guarantee that there will be no redundancies.
• The work of one quarter of the jobs to be cut will be contracted out to the private sector. In line with Tory policy 'law and order' departments bear the smallest reduction.
The Department of Transport is the most heavily hit, with a 17.7% cut and a loss of 2.e8C 00s.
The Secan ent of indusin mi be aur Dy 139. resuting in a loss of 1,290 jobs.
There will be outs of 10% in the Departments of National Savings, Environment, Employment and the Civil Service Department.
Civil service union leaders see it as a partial victory that the government has only proposed an 8% cut instead of the original 10, 15 and 20% options.
This is no victory! As the Tories have made clear, these cuts are just the beginning of an all-out attack on civil service jobs.
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