Responding to plans announced by Transport Secretary Justine Greening today (Thursday) outlining how the government plans to cut the budget for spending on the railways by billions of pounds, TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:
“Closing ticket offices and cutting station staff and train crews is not what passengers want and will make conditions worse for both commuters and rail staff.
Responding to the announcement today (Wednesday) by Maria Miller MP, minister for Disabled People, that 36 of the 54 Remploy factories around the UK will close with 1,752 compulsory redundancies, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“Closing Remploy factories will consign hundreds of severely disabled workers who have little chance of finding work anywhere else to the labour market scrap heap.
The South West's 1.1 million women workers are represented on the region's new Local Economic Partnerships by just 14 women out of 74, according to research by the South West TUC.....
Later today (Wednesday) more than 2,000 nurses, midwives, doctors, physiotherapists, managers, paramedics, radiographers, cleaners, porters and other employees from across the health service will join with patients to fill Central Hall Westminster.
Commenting on the latest figures on graduate employment prospects, published today (Tuesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Stronger wage growth and incentives to unlock the £724 billion ‘cash pile' currently held by UK companies – equivalent to around half the size of the economy – offer the only hopes of a sustainable economic recovery, according to a new TUC report published today (Tuesday).
One in 14 public sector workers in the South West lost their jobs between July and September last year, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics............
Commenting on the latest public sector employment figures published today (Thursday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
The government must be far more ambitious in its attempts to tackle the growing youth unemployment crisis, says a new TUC report published today (Thursday).
Responding to a letter to the Daily Telegraph today (Thursday) calling on the Chancellor to scrap the 50p tax rate in the Budget, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: