Caspar Weinberger worked tirelessly and with distinction and dignity in a lifetime of public service and private sector leadership.

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Nancy Sutley and her staff are doing yeoman's work behind the scenes to raise the profile of energy efficiency, retrofits, and green buildings broadly, and we are thrilled to award them our 2011 Leadership Award for Organizational Leadership in the Public Sector.

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And Labour's leadership announced at the weekend that this public sector pay restraint would continue if it regained power, because of the difficult economic situation.

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What we need to do is make sure that everybody is pulling together, Democrats and Republicans and independents, folks at the federal level and the state levels, private sector with the public sector, to make sure that America retains it competitiveness, retains its leadership in the world.

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Mr McCluskey has clashed in the past with the Labour leadership over its support for a two-year freeze on public sector pay introduced by the coalition government when it came to power and a subsequent 1% cap on pay increases until the end of the Parliament.

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