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With UK job losses mounting twice as fast as the rest of Europe, the TUC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) are today (Monday) calling on the Government to set up a fund for companies moving to short-term wages and temporary lay-offs that c...

Commenting on the publication of today's pre-Budget report, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: "This is rightly an upbeat report on an economy doing better than its competitors. The UK economy is set to deliver the Government's generous publ...

British business is stuck in a 'low-road' rut, under-investing and competing only by driving down costs and prices. It is government's job to ignore the 'red-tape whingers' and act to lift the UK onto a 'high-road' economy, in which innovative busine...

Policy makers and commentators often exaggerate the importance of small firms to the economy warns the TUC in a research report published today (Monday).

The third Comprehensive Spending Review marks a true dividing line between the only realistic alternatives for UK Government, according to a TUC report published on the day of the suspended local government workers' strike (Wednesday 14th). The repor...

The Welsh economy needs at least an extra £51m so that our manufacturing sector can look to the future with confidence - said David Jenkins today (April 9th).

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