NEW figures show thousands of public sector jobs will be lost in Yorkshire.
The GMB trade union said yesterday that 16,846 council workers in the region were facing redundancy.
General secretary Paul Kenny said: “The Government is deliberately creating unemployment on a scale that we have not seen before.
“Any suggestion that frontline services for the most vulnerable people in our society are not being affected by cuts of this scale is simply nonsense.”
Kirklees is in the middle of a cost-cutting exercise which will see its non-school workforce drop from 11,200 to 9,500.
