Public sector job cuts will have a devastating impact on local communities, the Trades Union Congress has warned.
Its analysis of which regions will be hardest hit by the loss of 710,000 jobs in the public sector concluded that the north-east of England and Northern Ireland would suffer most.
Unemployment levels in the north-east will hit 11.7%, it is projected, compared to 6.1% in the south-east of England. The north-east will see a 2.9% fall in the number of jobs available locally.
"Apart from the huge effect that the job cuts will have upon the provision of public services across the UK, mass redundancies across the public sector are bad news for our struggling economy, and will have a devastating impact upon local high streets, as newly-unemployed public sector workers simply stop spending," TUC general secretary Brendan Barber warned.
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