Summary
General secretary of TUC Wales Felicity Williams outlines her wish list for improving the Welsh economy next year WALES in 2005 is at a crossroads in the journey to become a better place to live and work. If 1999 and the launch of devolution was a watershed, then the intervening period has been focused on overturning a whole plethora of negative statistics.
Wales has been marked by low pay, high levels of economic inactivity, high levels of ill health, poor skills and market failure across many of our poorest communities, not least in manufacturing.See the full content of this document
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A Better Place to Work and to Do Business
What this has resulted in is a country that has struggled to attract employers who produce well-paid jobs and innovative, value- added products.
It has also left the state to pick up the pieces by subsidising low- paid jobs through the benefits sy...See the full content of this document
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