THE TUC called on the Chancellor, Mr Kenneth Clarke, yesterday to
create 300,000 jobs by increasing public investment by #12 billion in
his November Budget and stabilise future public spending at 3.9% of
Gross Domestic Product.
The TUC's budget submission would most benefit the long-term
unemployed and, it claims, there would be no need for an increase in
overall spending.
The cash injection, the TUC says, would come from diverting part of
the #27 billion the Government plans to save on unemployment benefits
over the next three years and the release of the #5 billion in capital
receipts held by local authorities.
Meanwhile, the TUC has complained to the Government over further
'erosion' of its influence on joint bodies. The move follows the
appointment of Mr Peter Smith, as general secretary of the non-TUC
Association of Teachers and Lecturers, to the Equal Opportunities
Commisssion, over the TUC nominee Ms Rita Donaghy of Unison.
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