Commenting on the official figures published today (Wednesday) which show that unemployment increased to 1.92 million between September and November last year, Midlands TUC Regional Secretary Roger McKenzie said:
“There is no disguising how bad today’s employment figures are. Compared with last month’s figures unemployment is up, employment is down, the number of redundancies is up and the number of job vacancies is down.
“And compared with a year ago the picture is even worse – the unemployment rate is higher for both men and women, for every age group and for every part of the UK except Northern Ireland.
“More importantly these figures stop at November 2008 and do not take into account the redundancies announced over the past eight weeks at companies like Woolworths, Santander, Barclays, Denby, Land Rover, JCB, Burberry, Zavvi, Grattan and Empire Direct. Many of these companies have shed jobs in the Midlands.
“Unfortunately, it seems certain that unemployment will continue to rise for at least the first six months of 2009, with a very strong chance it will pass the 2.5 million mark by June.”
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