LONDON -- The coalition government must abandon harsh public-sector spending cuts and tax rises that are hurting millions of workers and risk tipping the economy back into recession, the country's top union official said on Monday.
Brendan Barber, head of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), said the Conservative-led coalition had started an ideologically-based austerity drive under the pretext of eliminating a record budget deficit.
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