Some of the UK's poorest families have been hit by more than 100 unfair spending cuts during the first 100 days of the new Government, a TUC analysis of departmental spending reveals today (Wednesday).
Responding to the Chancellor's speech to City analysts in London today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“The Chancellor has a different definition of fairness to the rest of us.
“His spending cuts are hitting the most vulnerable, his one big tax rise was VAT – the unfairest tax of all – and his economic policies are bearing down on the young, trapped between unemployment and an education sector with not enough places.
A new report on social mobility published by the TUC today (Tuesday) reveals Alan Milburn has much to do in his new role as social mobility tsar for the coalition Government.
Social Mobility – the TUC's most recent in a series of bi-monthly economic reports – finds that in Britain 50 per cent of a child's future earning potential is determined at birth, compared to less than 20 per cent in Canada, Australia, Denmark, Norway and Finland. The UK has the worst record on this front of any of the countries the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has data for, also lagging behind the US, Italy, France and Germany.
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Major changes to plans to auto enrol workers into new low-cost occupational pensions in 2012 risk breaking the fragile consensus on workplace pension reform and condemn another generation of workers to poverty in retirement, the TUC warns today (Thursday) in its submission to the Government review of workplace pensions.
Major changes to plans to auto enrol workers into new low-cost occupational pensions in 2012 risk breaking the fragile consensus on workplace pension reform and condemn another generation of workers to poverty in retirement, the TUC warns today (Thursday) in its submission to the Government review of workplace pensions.
The number of long-term young unemployed people has almost doubled in ten local authorities across the UK, with Darlington (up 83%) and Hartlepool (up 62%) experiencing the sharpest increases in our region. The young workers of Tees Valley as a whole have suffered the most across the North East, as Stockton and Middlesbrough have also seen increases in their long-term unemployment figures.
The number of long-term young unemployed people has almost doubled in ten local authorities across the UK, with Darlington (up 83%) and Hartlepool (up 62%) experiencing the sharpest increases in our region. The young workers of Tees Valley as a whole have suffered the most across the North East, as Stockton and Middlesbrough have also seen increases in their long-term unemployment figures.
Commenting on the launch today (Wednesday) of the Government consultation on the right to request time to train, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Commenting on the latest unemployment figures published today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: