The north east is once again at the brunt of recessionary forces and suffering the ill-effects of rising unemployment and a shrinking jobs market. In the region there are 6370 fewer job vacancies than three years ago and 33,576 more people out of work. And this is ahead of the new financial year beginning at the start of April when many of the savage spending cuts will really begin to bite.
Commenting on the latest unemployment figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“Today's figures are shocking. Over a year after the recession technically ended unemployment is now at its highest level since the mid 1990s, with 2.53 million people out of work.
Commenting on the latest unemployment figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“Today's figures are shocking. Over a year after the recession technically ended unemployment is now at its highest level since the mid 1990s, with 2.53 million people out of work.
There are almost ten dole claimants for every job vacancy in Labour held constituencies, more than double the rate in Conservative seats, according to a TUC analysis published today (Wednesday) ahead of the latest unemployment statistics.
Commenting on the final report of Will Hutton's Fair Pay Review published today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
The Lib Dems risk ending up on the wrong side of the basic divide in British politics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber today (Saturday) told a fringe meeting at the Lib Dem Spring conference in Sheffield.
With two weeks to go until the TUC March for the Alternative in central London (Saturday 26 March), almost 600 coaches from all across the UK have been chartered and registered with the TUC to bring people to London for the big march and rally in Hyde Park.
Comments on the Environmental Audit Committee report into the Green Investment Bank
Commenting on the final report of Lord Hutton's Review of public sector pensions published today (Thursday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber will warn today (Thursday) that the government's cuts in services and benefits are having an unfair impact on women and mark a return to the Thatcher ideals of the 1980s.
Addressing delegates at the annual TUC women's conference in Eastbourne later this morning, Brendan Barber will say: “The progress women have made over the years is in grave danger as we battle with the government's savage, unnecessary and ideological cuts.