Facts
The employment rate for those aged from 16 to 24 high a record high of 1.02 million in the quarter.
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Employment rate highest in the South East and East of England (74.1 per cent) and lowest in the North East (64.9 per cent)
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The manufacturing sector shows the loss of 1,935 jobs and given the global pressures and costs associated with doing business in Ireland this sector maintains a worrying downward trend. According to The Director of the Small Firms Association, Avine McNally stated that “the redundancy figures announced today are yet again disappointing, but not surprising.”
The unemployment rate between July and September 2011 was 8.3 per cent. The total number of unemployed people increased by 129,000 over the quarter to reach 2.62 million - a 17 year high.
Unite's "Don't Break Britain" campaign now has its own website, visit the site here. The campaign was started due to the concern that the country is already seeing cuts to community and social care, local government, social housing, the NHS, education, youth workers, debt advice, benefits and defence - nothing will escape the axe as government slashes Britain’s public services to the bone.
In the last decade the UK's share of global exports has declined fro 5.3% to 4.1%. In the same period Germany's exports have grown from 8.9% to 9.3%.
Examples of job losses in the UK
November
British Gas are set to make 850 jobs redundant.
Credit Suisse announced 1500 job losses worldwide and a reorganisation of its securities unit after reporting weak third-quarter net profits of £480m.
More than 1,000 jobs are under threat after retailer Carphone Warehouse announced it was pulling the plug on its Best Buy stores in the UK.
Mining firm Rio Tinto says laws to reduce toxic emissions will make cost of running aluminium plant at Lynemouth near Newcastle too high, therefore 850 jobs are to go.
October
Insurer Aviva will cut 950 jobs in the republic and announces 115 losses in the UK.
Helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland is cutting up to 375 jobs in the latest shockwave from spending cuts at the Ministry of Defence to hit UK manufacturers.
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These are the facts... What are you're thoughts?
Great Britain is more than half full of morons. If these morons thought about the future of their childrens, children they would buy BRITISH before any consideration to any other manufactured products. Because if they don't care for their future BRITAIN can't either, Buy BRITISH and guarantee jobs and manufacturing it's good for everyone's future including your own pension.
Wonderful planning. We are about to make some great savings by further reducing our Armed Forces. Whatever happened to last year's pledge by Government to reduce the Public Sector payroll by 400,000?
You couldn't make it up!
Incidentally, what a great boost to the economy it must be to award a major railway contract to Siemens in Europe - to say nothing of the further boost arising from all those lovely expensive wind turbines being manufactured off-shore.
The Labour Government created roughly 600,000 jobs in the public sector simply to reduce unemployment. Many of these were non essential or 'non-jobs' - subsequently ridiculed by Press and public, but still to be seen advertised in certain newspapers and periodicals.
This Conservative Government aim to remove roughly 400,000 public sector jobs which will hopefully include all those 'non-jobs'.
Private enterprise is expected to expand and absorb this new bonanza of available workers.
Expansion requires more orders and contracts - which must be found in what some see as a shrinking consumer market driven by this governments very necessary economies and cut-backs.
ALL THE MORE REASON TO BUY BRITISH THEN.............