GMB On Unemployment
Wednesday 18
th January 2012
RISE IN UNEMPLOYMENT MADE IN DOWNING
STREET AS JOBS HAEMORRHAGE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS AND
GOVERNMENT SEEMS NOT TO KNOW HOW TO STOP THIS
Number one political priority has to
be securing a reduction in unemployment by creating jobs, by
stimulating demand in the economy, not by cutting wages
and shedding jobs says GMB
GMB commented on the official figures showing
that that unemployment increased by 118,000 between September and
November to 2.68 million.
Paul Kenny GMB General Secretary said
“This rise in unemployment was made in Downing Street. The
truth is that jobs are haemorrhaging in the public and private
sectors and no one in Parliament seems to know what to do to stop
this.
There are parts of the country in such
despair that more than a quarter of households with people of
working age have no one in work.
The number one political priority has
to be securing a reduction in unemployment by creating jobs, by
stimulating demand in the economy, not by cutting wages
and shedding jobs.”
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