8,604 West Mids jobs slashed
A total of 8,604 public sector jobs will be axed in the West Midlands. That’s according to trade union GMB, which released a report detailing the 150,000 posts which have been lost across the country.
Seventeen organisations in the West Midlands are responsible for the job cuts. Amongst these, 2,000 jobs will be axed from the West Midlands Police. Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Shropshire Council will also shed 1,040 and 1,340 posts respectively.
Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary, said: “Current job losses already announced in the public sector of nearly 150,000 are just the top of the iceberg heading for our services and our economy when the Comprehensive Spending Review finally hits home next month. Unemployment and cuts in public services follow the appointment of a Tory led government like night follows day.
"It was the excesses of the bankers not high public spending that caused the recession. The deficit in public finances is mainly due to the loss of 6 per cent of national output because of the recession.
"The ideology of the Tory Party if for a smaller State and they are hell bent on using the recession to impose these needless and ideologically driven cuts in public spending.”
