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ETUC Make It Clear They Oppose Brexit

Reading the Action Plan and Manifesto of the European Trade Union Confederation, it is very clear that the organisation cannopt support the UK leaving the EU. Indeed, their stance is far more clearer than the current position of both the TUC and the Labour Party in the UK.

The risks to and the loss of, the UK; puts working people throughout the European Union at risk, with the principles that it holds being totally compomised were it to do so.

The ETUC defends fundamental social values such as solidarity, equality, democracy, social justice and cohesion.

It fights for:

• pay rises for workers
• full implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights
• high quality jobs for all
• a high level of social protection
• gender equality and fair pay
• good health and safety at work
• freedom of movement for European workers, and an end to social dumping
• high quality public services accessible to all
• a European framework to raise the standard of national social legislation
• action to combat climate change while promoting a Just Transition for workers
• promotion of these European social values in other parts of the world

It comes as no surprise then the organisation takes the stance it does and denounced Brexit and the way in which the British Government have behaved since the 2016 referendum in their press release this month:

Commenting on the rejection of the Brexit ‘Withdrawal Agreement’ in the UK House of Commons, Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, said

“We call for the extension or withdrawal of article 50. This is essential to avoid the UK crashing out of the EU without an agreement and to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland. Time is running out and ‘no-deal’ threatens jobs and rights in the UK and the EU. All parties involved have a duty to focus on finding a workable solution.

Any new agreement must put jobs and working people’s rights in the EU and the UK above all other considerations."

Source: ETUC  

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