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BREXIT must not be a “Trojan horse” to scrap necessary health and safety laws, campaigners have said.
The call comes as a study from the manufacturers’ body EEF urged the government today to avoid any “disruption” to business by replacing, or abolishing, currently existing labour laws when we leave the European Union.
The study said that it was “vital” that the British Standards Institution (BSI) continues to play a leading role in setting standards across Europe.
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
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
