GMB welcomes the report of the national equality panel

27 January 2010

Areas with low employment rates have to be given extra help to catch up with areas with high employment rates says GMB

Kamaljeet Jandu, GMB national equality officer responded to the publication of the report by the National Equality Panel called An Anatomy of Economic Inequality.

Kamaljeet Jandu said "GMB welcomes the report of the National Equality Panel. It shows the high cost of the Thatcherite philosophy and the abiding damage in terms of the growth in inequality. The reports shows that most of the increase in inequality occurred during the 1980s

The UK economy and society has not recovered from the deliberate destruction of manufacturing and mining industries which employed so many workers in well paid jobs in the inner cities and the industrial heartlands now the epicentre of the profound and startling differences between areas of high and low deprivation

The report demonstrates that the Labour Party in its attempts to reverse this inequality is advocating it’s core values.

GMB believe the way to reduce inequality is by creating decent jobs so that people have an income to come out of poverty, as well as using progressive taxation to reduce inequality. Such taxation would include a properly enforced inheritance tax. Areas with low employment rates have to be given extra help to catch up with areas with high employment rates,"

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