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THE European Union (EU) would resemble a “sweatshop” if the Tories succeed in using “reform” to remove workers’ rights, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady will say today.
Ms O’Grady sets out the nightmare vision in a speech this evening as Prime Minister David Cameron attempts to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership ahead of a referendum.
She will warn that business leaders are lobbying for reforms to include the scrapping of rights for agency workers and the working-time directive, along with a moratorium on any new protections.
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
