TUC youth wing makes jobs appeal

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Calls for guaranteed jobs or training for unemployed youngsters have been made at a conference of young trade-union activists amid rising concern over youth unemployment.

The issue has been top of the agenda at the TUC's young members' conference in London, where delegates discussed the latest unemployment figures, which showed a jobless rate of 22% for 16 to 24-year-olds.