Surely in these tough economic times the Government should be trying to keep as many people as possible in work?

Without a job, workers cannot save and also stop spending money on other goods and services, which causes more job losses as shops and businesses see their earnings drop.
But instead of doing everything it can to save and protect jobs, the Government has actually axed the jobs of more than 1,400 of its own public sector workers since the election in November 2008!

So not only is the Government creating more unemployed workers, it is also undermining the quality of public services. It has gone way beyond its election pledge of ‘capping’ or reducing staff by natural attrition.

The Government needs to halt all further job cuts in the public sector and to support more programmes to save and create jobs across the entire economy.

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