Responding to a report published today (Friday) by the Innovation, Universities and Science and Skills Select Committee examining the impact of Lord Leitch's review of skills, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Commenting on the announcement today (Thursday) that the Government is to give the go-ahead for a third runway at Heathrow Airport, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Responding to the Welfare Reform Bill published today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
The TUC is today (Wednesday) urging the Government to keep its legacy commitment to the Olympics and reject plans to scale down the London 2012 media centre.
Responding to the Government's White Paper on social mobility published today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Today's jobs summit called by the Prime Minister must not just look at every way of reducing job losses but discuss what government can do to help the growing ranks of the unemployed who will find it increasingly difficult to find new jobs as the dole queue grows through 2009 and beyond, the TUC says in advance of the summit.
As the Government prepares for its job summit next week, a TUC report published today (Friday) is calling for state funded training to be extended to all workers facing redundancy.