jobs

The SNP has condemned an announcement by the Treasury confirming plans to close 130 HMRC offices with the loss of up to 1,700 jobs.

The SNP Scottish Government has given it's support to workers affected by the collapse of Flyglobespan as the opposition parties let them down.

The SNP has today (Wednesday) hit out at the Labour administration in Glasgow City Council after plans to slash services and cut jobs across the City emerged last night.

The SNP today branded Labour’s decision to make 4000 council workers redundant a disgrace – coming only days after Gordon Brown promised “jobs for all” to people in Glasgow.

Angus MacNeil, SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan An Iar, has today (Wednesday) claimed that Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy MP, must stake his position on assuring the safety of Qinetiq jobs

SNP MSP for Kilmarnock Willie Coffey has praised the over 2000 people across Ayrshire and across the country who have flocked to sign a petition calling on Diageo to reverse its plans to close the Johnnie Walker plant in Kilmarnock.

MSP for Kilmarnock Willie Coffey has today commented on the news that Diageo is cut up to 500 across Scotland.

Western Isles SNP MSP, Alasdair Allan has raised the future of 125 defence jobs in Uist at First Minister's Question time today at Hoyrood.

With unemployment expected to soar in excess of two million when the Office of National Statistics next publishes its official data, SNP Work and Pensions Spokesperson John Mason MP has called on the UK Government to step up its response.

Commenting on jobs forecast report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development which warns that 600,000 jobs could go in the UK in 2009, the SNP's Westminster Treasury spokesperson Stewart Hosie said the Westminster Government must use their greater economic powers more effectively.