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BRITISH workers’ wages could fall further as a result of EU membership, top employment lawyer John Hendy warned yesterday.
Mr Hendy, who will address the Trade Unionists Against the EU fringe meeting at the TUC Congress, said the EU employment model calls for wages to reflect productivity, and could lead to pay being slashed to “compete” with the economies of France and Germany.
The meeting next Tuesday lunchtime will also hear from Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, who will brand the EU “anti-democratic and anti-socialist.”
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
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
Meanwhile, over 110 human rights organisations and trade unions demand the EU immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel over its ‘egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians’