Job loss announcements

Cheryl Pidgeon at the recent
rally against public sector cuts.

Public sector job losses are now being reported on a regular basis with the most recent announcements from Stoke on Trent and Warwickshire.
The GMB in Stoke on Trent have issued a press release saying they are currently dealing with notice of redundancy for 713 jobs which will be cut before the end of April 2011. They fear that the total job losses in Stoke will total between 2500 and 3000 over the next four years as the council seeks cuts of £100 million.
In Warwickshire, the GMB report that 1855 jobs will be lost as the County Council has to deal with cuts of 26% over the next three years.
TUC Midlands Regional Secretary Cheryl Pidgeon said, "We are now seeing the detail of cuts which emanate from the governments Comprehensive Spending Review. If you are elderly, disabled or have a learning disability, you are at the head of the queue to suffer these cuts. You don't escape by being young either, as youth services are slashed or closed completely, or early years services disappear. Libraries are threatened, children's centres, and the Connexions services, all with the axe hanging over them." Ms Pidgeon continued, "and it is not just the staff who lose their jobs that we are concerned with, it is also the recipient's of those services who we are worried about. These cuts will not be fair as some in government claim -particularly as those who will suffer are certainly not the people who have caused our recent economic problems."