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WORKERS’ rights are at risk of being “watered down” as part of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation, Labour MPs warned yesterday.
A commitment to “enhance competitiveness” was part of a deal struck between the Prime Minister and European Council president Donald Tusk published yesterday.
“We will regularly assess progress in simplifying legislation and reducing [the] burden on business so that red tape is cut,” Mr Tusk wrote in a letter to leaders of other EU member states.
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
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