Strikes will lead to more job losses, warn ministers

TUC leader attacks government's 'fantasy economics' as war of words escalates in run-up to next week's public sector walk-out

Friday 25 November 2011 01:00 GMT

Prime Minister David Cameron installs a badge on a car at a Toyota plant in Burnaston in the East Midlands yesterday (Getty Images)

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Next Wednesday's public sector strike over pensions could cost the economy up to £500m with resulting job losses, the Government claimed yesterday as it stepped up its rhetoric against the union movement.

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Strikes will lead to more job losses, warn ministers

TUC leader attacks government's 'fantasy economics' as war of words escalates in run-up to next week's public sector walk-out

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