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Sat 02 Feb 2009Private pain of public servants
The country’s 357,000 public employees are caught in the crossfire between a Government seeking €2 billion in cuts and a hostile private sector, writes Shane Hegarty
THEY ARE NOT exactly popular right now, and they know it. They’re fully aware that there were few tears shed for their predicament this week, a week when unemployment reached 327,000. There are 357,000 public servants in the State.
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