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Unions warn of 1980s level of unemployment unless government steps in to save Covid-hit sectors
UNIONS have warned that Britain is hurtling towards an unemployment crisis of a scale last seen under Thatcher unless the government takes action to support workers and businesses.
Ahead of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s summer financial statement on Wednesday, which was scaled back from a full emergency Budget, they have warned there is only a “very short window” to prevent hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs.
General secretaries of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Unite, Unison, GMB and Usdaw warned that Britain is facing the biggest economic crisis for generations.
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