Tag: TUC

Responding to the latest unemployment figures out today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

Commenting on the announcement today (Monday) that benefits will be uprated in line with inflation from April 2012, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: “After previous suggestions that benefits might not be uprated in line with inflation, today's announcement that April's uprating will be inflation-linked is welcome news. “The government has already reduced the value of benefits by moving from the RPI to the lower CPI measure of inflation, and by introducing many benefit cuts for both working and out of work families. It is the least they can do for the millions of households facing unemployment this Christmas to guarantee that their benefits will rise by the CPI rate in the new year.”

If they become unemployed, low-paid workers such as cleaners, catering assistants and machine operators are most likely to be on the dole for more than six months, according to a new TUC analysis published today (Monday) ahead of the latest unemployment statistics this week.

The South West TUC is today launching a campaign to stop the West Country being declared a low pay zone....

Commenting on the latest figures on average hours worked across the economy, published today (Thursday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

The TUC has published a guide to the UK's key enforcement agencies to coincide with a conference aimed at tackling exploitation in the workplace taking place at the TUC's headquarters today (Monday). The booklet, funded by the TUC's Union Modernisation Fund (UMF), has been published to raise awareness of basic rights at work amidst concerns that thousands of workers across the UK are being exploited by unscrupulous employers.

Commenting on the judicial review announced today (Friday) of the government's decision to switch the indexing of pensions from the retail prices index (RPI) to the consumer prices index (CPI), TUC General Brendan Barber said:

Commenting today (Thursday) on the TUC Day of Action yesterday, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

As public sector workers take part in the biggest strike for a generation today (Wednesday), a new paper from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts that the gap between CPI and RPI inflation will increase to 1.4 per cent in future – cutting the value of public and private sector pensions in payment even more than previously forecast.

On average, people think that the average public sector pension is around £14,000, according to a new YouGov poll commissioned by the TUC and published today (Wednesday). Asked what they think the average public sector pension should be people give an even higher figure.