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Watch out! Brexit doesn’t save us from anti-worker international trade deals
by Adrian Weir
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ONE of the central themes of the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom (CTUF) has been its opposition to the new generation of trade agreements — TTIP, Ceta, Tisa and TPP — not least because of the deregulatory impact on employment rights that these treaties pose.
Those readers of the Morning Star who also follow the Centre for Labour & Social Studies — Class — on social media may have noted that right at the start of the referendum campaign I blogged about Brexit and the pro-corporation investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) procedure contained within TTIP, making the point that Leave or Remain would be likely to make little or no difference to the rush to get these treaties signed.
I said back in May that “TTIP is an issue that transcends Remain or Leave not least because TTIP is just one part of the network of new generation deregulatory free-trade deals being negotiated around the globe.”
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