A UNION leader will today pour scorn on claims that the green shoots of economic recovery are appearing with a warning that thousands of workers are still losing their jobs every week.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber will say a real recovery will be evident when unemployment starts to fall, decent jobs are created and public services were safe from cuts.
He will tell the opening day of the TUC Congress in Liverpool that bad economic news was not over.
Young people were least to blame for the recession but suffering the most, Mr Barber will say, warning that Britain could not afford to write off a generation to mass unemployment.
"I am horrified when I hear Conservatives talk of expenditure cuts which would turn any progress towards economic recovery into a nose dive," he will say.
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article