Commenting on figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on the earnings of UK employees, broken down by educational qualifications, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“These figures show that having a degree still pays, but the premium from higher education has fallen since the early 1990s. The recession has hit graduate opportunities badly, the misuse of unpaid graduate interns has become widespread, and the living standards of even those with good qualifications has been squeezed as a small number of super-rich have taken an unfair share of the gains of growth.
Commenting on today's (Thursday) A-level results, TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O' Grady said:
Commenting on the latest unemployment figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
As the jobs gap grows ever wider, it is once again the North East who is bearing the national brunt of the global economic crisis, compounded by crude and counter-productive public spending cuts. Based on statistics from December 2007 to April 2011 the number of women in employment in the region has decreased by 5.09 per cent – the highest figure in Great Britain.
The UK has a ‘jobs gap' – the number of people currently employed minus employment levels on the eve of the recession in December 2007 – of 158,000, a new TUC analysis shows today (Tuesday) ahead of the latest unemployment figures published by the Office for National Statistics tomorrow.
Commenting on the announcement by the Bank of England today (Wednesday), that the UK economy will not grow as quickly as previously thought this year and may not fully recover for three years, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“This recovery is already the slowest on record, and the Bank's assessment that it may take another three years for us just to recover lost ground shows that the pain is set to continue to for some time.
The GMB and TUC are today (Monday) calling on Tate & Lyle sugar refineries in London to challenge the Fijian military government to end the rapidly escalating labour rights abuses in the country.
Last Wednesday (3 August), President of the Fiji Trades Union Congress Daniel Urai and another union leader were arrested on charges of holding a union meeting without a permit.
Weakening the right to request flexible working risks giving employers the green light to abandon family friendly practices, the TUC warns today (Monday) in its submission to the government's modern workplaces consultation.
Commenting on research published today (Monday) by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) which reveals charities are facing cuts totalling nearly £3 billion over the next five years due to government spending cuts, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“This authoritative research shows that for all the warm words about the big society, the government has created a funding crisis for charities with many scaling back or cutting services altogether.
Commenting on the publication today (Friday) of the government's strategy for a transition to a green economy, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: