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Science after #Brexit needs action, not just aspiration

Sep 6, 2017By Touchstone blog

Fifteen months on from the EU referendum, the government will today set out its aspiration to continue contributing to EU science programmes. As the entire STEM community has repeatedly asked for clarity of direction, we can all be pleased about this. …Read more…

Sep 6, 2017Touchstone blog

Over-regulation is not the problem a post-Brexit Britain would face

Aug 25, 2017By Touchstone blog

Yesterday’s report The Economy After Brexit by Economists For Brexit includes a section by Tim Congdon on EU regulation, essentially blaming all the evils of the British economy on excessive red tape and inferring that our economy could do so much better if it were unshackled from it all. The…Read more…

Aug 25, 2017Touchstone blog

What would it take for trade deals to protect workers’ rights?

Aug 3, 2017By Touchstone blog

Protecting workers’ rights in trade deals is essential to ensure trade is fair. If trade deals don’t contain effective protections for workers’ rights, they just make it easier for companies to locate themselves in countries where wages are lower and workers are less able to resist…Read more…

Aug 3, 2017Touchstone blog

EU citizens: UNISON returns to Parliament to defend members

Jul 21, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

Union backing new lobby for the ‘right to remain’ for EU citizens in the UK

The article EU citizens: UNISON returns to Parliament to defend members first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Jul 21, 2017Dave Prentis blog

‘Our Brexit brings the country together’, UNISON members told

Jun 23, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

National delegates debate a raft of motions on the risks posed by the Brexit negotiations

The article ‘Our Brexit brings the country together’, UNISON members told first appeared on the…Read more…

Jun 23, 2017Dave Prentis blog

ECJ Singapore ruling adds to case against ISDS in Brexit deal

May 16, 2017By Touchstone blog

Today the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave an important boost to the case for scrapping Investor State Dispute Settlement, as well as other corporate court systems like it, in trade agreements. Part of the ECJ’s ruling today was that trade deals that contain ISDS need to be ratified in EU…Read more…

May 16, 2017Touchstone blog

Our Polish members – in their own words

May 8, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

Three of UNISON’s Polish migrant members share their stories and their thoughts on a post Brexit Britain

The article Our Polish members – in their own words first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…

May 8, 2017Dave Prentis blog

“UK manufacturing deserves no less.” Why employers & unions are calling for strong trade remedies

May 4, 2017By Touchstone blog

As the UK leaves the European Union, it will need to develop its own independent trade policy that fits with a wider industrial strategy. This includes developing a system of trade remedies, the instruments that are used to combat market distortions (s…Read more…

May 4, 2017Touchstone blog

Rights at work – this May Day, it’s all happening at once

Apr 30, 2017By Touchstone blog

You wait for years for the needs of working people to become the focus of political attention and then suddenly everybody’s interested. The onset of the General Election campaign has coincided with the beginning of Brexit negotiations and the long overdue dawning of understanding at the…Read more…

Apr 30, 2017Touchstone blog

Putting the foxes in charge of the migration hen house

Apr 18, 2017By Touchstone blog

The Financial Times has a story today (behind the paywall) suggesting that the government’s new visa system for EU migrants will have to be enforced not by the Home Office or the Borders Agency but by employers, landlords and universities, because of cuts to the civil service. That would,…Read more…

Apr 18, 2017Touchstone blog

MEPs vote overwhelmingly for workers’ rights to be protected in Brexit deal

Apr 5, 2017By Touchstone blog

The European Parliament decided today by an overwhelming 516 to 133 votes (nearly four to one) what it thought should be in the eventual EU-UK Brexit deal. And after lobbying from the European trade union movement, MEPs made it crystal clear that any future deal should be conditional on…Read more…

Apr 5, 2017Touchstone blog

Continental holidays under threat without a good #Brexit deal

Apr 4, 2017By Touchstone blog

The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) is the latest trade association to express serious concerns about how Brexit is being negotiated, with a report setting out the measures needed to sustain the industry – which employs many in the UK, as well as abroad – after Brexit. In…Read more…

Apr 4, 2017Touchstone blog

#Article50: the union response is all about good jobs & rights at work

Mar 30, 2017By Touchstone blog

So much has already been written about the triggering of Article 50, firing the starting gun on two years of negotiations about leaving the European Union. And it was only yesterday. For trade unions, it still seems strange that a Conservative Prime Mi…Read more…

Mar 30, 2017Touchstone blog

Blog: I dream in English – a German member’s thoughts on Brexit

Mar 27, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

By Christina Egan When I read Anke Plummer’s account of feeling like a Briton, I wondered why, as another German living here for over 20 years, I do not seem to feel British at all? Well, I…Read more…

Mar 27, 2017Dave Prentis blog

Europe’s response to Article 50: what unions want

Mar 26, 2017By Touchstone blog

On Wednesday, the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50 and fire the starting pistol on negotiations to leave the European Union. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has already adopted a statement setting out what unions here and in the res…Read more…

Mar 26, 2017Touchstone blog

Protecting the car industry after Brexit: a frictionless supply chain

Mar 25, 2017By Stronger Unions

Today, Unite is holding a major conference in Birmingham called Securing the future of the UK auto sector. It will bring together workers, employers and experts from the British car manufacturing…Read more…

Mar 25, 2017Stronger Unions

Counting the cost of Brexit

Mar 19, 2017By Touchstone blog

Time was when nothing could be done by the Government or the European Union without a rigorously mapped impact assessment. Almost invariably wielded as a tool by deregulatory zealots to show that workers’ demands would lead to unacceptable burdens on business, I can remember exposing many of…Read more…

Mar 19, 2017Touchstone blog

Is #Brexit Britain at the front of the queue for a US trade deal, or the end of the line?

Mar 14, 2017By Touchstone blog

When Prime Minister Theresa May visited newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump in January, Brexit supporters were cock-a-hoop about how post-Brexit Britain would be at the front of the queue for a trade deal with the US Trade Representative (USTR – not that there was one when Mrs…Read more…

Mar 14, 2017Touchstone blog

#Brexit bad news hidden in #Budget2017

Mar 13, 2017By Touchstone blog

Last week’s Budget speech by the Chancellor had very little to say about Brexit. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a Brexit angle – you just have to look at what wasn’t there, rather than what was. First, there was very little in the Budget to prepare for the…Read more…

Mar 13, 2017Touchstone blog

Putting all our eggs in Empire 2.0 – risking rights & living standards

Mar 12, 2017By Touchstone blog

Ahead of Commonwealth Day tomorrow, Commonwealth trade ministers were in London last week, hosted by the UK international trade minister and leading Leave supporter Liam Fox. The media claimed that several Commonwealth countries were ‘first in the queue’ to do a trade deal with the UK…Read more…

Mar 12, 2017Touchstone blog
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