THE STUC was mandated by delegates yesterday to campaign for a Remain position in the upcoming European Union referendum after a fiery debate at conference.
Usdaw delegate Jean Hession warned that “many jobs and hard-won rights” were at risk from an EU exit, adding that the “interests of Scottish workers are best served by remaining in the EU.”

But Dundee Trades Council delegate Raymond Mennie rejected these claims, arguing that many rights supposedly protected by the EU had already been won by the trade union movement and that the EU had actively been eroding these rights.

He said that the European Court of Justice had handed down “judgment after judgment which undermines collective bargaining,” adding that the founding principle of the EU “is to put the interests of capital before the interests of labour.”