Unison: Economic alarm bells are ringing
Dave Prentis, Unison general secretary, commented on the latest unemployment statistics:
“The government is failing miserably to get unemployment under control. We need to get Britain working to have any hope of economic recovery. Far from jobs growth fuelling the recovery – the number of jobs fell by a whopping 170,000 in the year to last September.
“Women and young people seem to have been abandoned by the Tories. Both groups are really struggling in this shrinking jobs market.
“The government’s recovery remedy is a toxic prescription for our economy. And the biggest tranche of public sector job losses – that will see hundreds of thousands more pile onto the dole queues – are yet to come.
“All the alarm bells are ringing – when will the Tory-led coalition start to listen?”
