SAY 'Congress views alarm the reduced public expenditure programme outlined in Public Expenditure to 1979-80 [Cmnd. 6393] and rejects the concept of "cuts" as a means of improving the economic situation.' Civil and Public Services Association.
'Congress reaffirms its 1976 to further public expenditure cuts. It recognises that the planned growth of social expenditure and of the public sector must play its part in a plan for economic recovery. Congress calls on the Government to further cuts ,Proposals for reject any National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education.
'Congress is totally op. posed to the Government's current policy of cutting public expenditure, which •will [i] reduce social provision at a time when it is most in need, [ii] increase unemployment, and divert resources into the private sector.' Confederation of Health Service Employees.
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opposition expressed at the Special Congress in June