Now you live in poverty without any job security, without tenure, and with the threat of test-scores looming above you.

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It added that the council's aim was to achieve the savings with "a commitment to job security" and without the need for compulsory redundancies.

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Postal workers began the 48-hour strike early on Monday after eight days of talks between the Royal Mail and CWU officials ended without a settlement on pay increases, pension benefits or job security.

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But efforts to remove the influence of Saddam's regime means hundreds of thousands of security-force personnel, administrators and technocrats have been left without a job.

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