TUC: Unemployment 'will not slow until late 2010'

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TUC: Unemployment 'will not slow until late 2010'

Wed 17th Jun 2009

The Trade Unions Congress (TUC) has predicted that unemployment in the UK, which has been accelerated over the last year by the recession, will not stop rising until late next year.

According to the TUC, which used official figures and data from the economic downturn of the 1990s, there will not be a slowing in unemployment until autumn 2010.

It observes that there is typically a gap between recessions lifting and employment rates growing as businesses exercise caution before taking on new staff following economic recovery.

Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, said that though some are lauding the end of the recession, it will be a long time before those made redundant will see any changes in the employment market.

"Speeding up the process of getting people back into work and into jobs with decent pay will […] benefit the two million people currently out of work [and] give the economy the spending boost it needs," he continued.

The TUC represents over six million British employees and campaigns for fairness in the workplace.

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