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THE European Union (EU) would resemble a “sweatshop” if the Tories succeed in using “reform” to remove workers’ rights, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady will say today.
Ms O’Grady sets out the nightmare vision in a speech this evening as Prime Minister David Cameron attempts to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership ahead of a referendum.
She will warn that business leaders are lobbying for reforms to include the scrapping of rights for agency workers and the working-time directive, along with a moratorium on any new protections.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR