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Bfawu: Brexit frees us from fear of endless cuts
Neoliberalism at the heart of the EU project, bakers are told

NEOLIBERAL policies are at the heart of EU legislation and Britain should vote for Brexit to save itself from the threat of permanent austerity, campaigners said at a bakers’ conference fringe meeting yesterday.

Trade Unionists Against the EU outlined their left-wing argument for voting to leave the “white man’s club” of the European Union in the referendum in nine days’ time.

Casualisation of labour, which entails zero-hours contracts and unstable wages, is a direct effect of the European Commission setting laws that favour big business over the individual worker, Enrico Tortolano told the fringe meeting at the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union conference in Southport.

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