We will not be standing on the sidelines. We will be campaigning proudly for Britain to stay in the EU, and to rebuild it for the benefit of working people.
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Another Europe is possible – UNISON backs campaign to stay in Europe
This afternoon I took part in a “once in a life time” debate and decision. The National Executive Committee of UNISON met in London and decided by an overwhelming majority to campaign for the UK to remain in the European Union. The referendum wil…Read more…
Members need a strong and focused union to help them survive ‘crisis after crisis’
NEC hears update on Trade Union Bill and agrees EU referendum campaign
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‘Brexit should carry health warning’
Earlier this year, Unite commissioned a damning study about the dangers that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), an EU-US trade currently being negotiated, would pose for the…Read more…
Brexit won’t save UK steel – The government could already do much more within the EU
Tata Steel, the second largest steel producer in Europe, employs thousands of British workers. Its plan to sell its UK assets has kicked the UK’s steel industry crisis up a gear, with up to 40,000…Read more…
Brexit risks ‘chaos’
There could be years of uncertainty for workers and employers if the UK votes to leave the European Union. That’s according to leading legal expert, Michael Ford QC, who was commissioned by…Read more…
10 reasons why we really should be worried about Brexit’s impact on workers’ rights
The TUC has been fighting attempts to scrap the workers’ rights we have won from the European Union for nearly a year. First we had to fight off the Prime Minister’s plan to use his renegotiation strategy to reduce worker protections; secure a further UK opt out from them; or…Read more…
Forty years of progress on workplace rights at risk for workers if Britain Brexits
The TUC has published today a legal opinion from prominent legal expert Michael Ford QC – Employment Silk of 2015 – which warns of years of chaos as a post-Brexit government re-regulates British employment law. The advice he has given the TUC lists the workplace rights which are most…Read more…
Don’t let others speak for us
Polls have shown that young people are most likely to back the UK staying in the European Union – however they are also the least likely to turn out to vote. It is also young people who would…Read more…
‘Good economic sense’
Airbus, one of the world’s biggest aerospace companies, has issued a statement to its workforce asking them to back a ‘remain’ vote in the upcoming European Union referendum for the business to stay…Read more…
Poll shows workers’ voices aren’t being heard in #EUreferendum debate
The new polling released by the Fabian Society at the weekend has some hard messages for both Remain and Leave campaigners in the EU referendum debate. There’s one over-riding message however, that echoes what the TUC (and a few others) have been saying: The campaigns aren’t currently addressing…Read more…
Remain campaigners need a more ‘inclusive’ message
The House of Lords’ European Union Committee, chaired by Lord Boswell, issued a report yesterday arguing that the Government needed to “set out a positive, inclusive vision of the…Read more…
Brexit economic shock
Leaving the EU will dramatically shrink the UK economy by £100bn over the next five years and could mean the loss of nearly 1m jobs, a new report from the Confederation of Business Industry (CBI) has…Read more…
‘The best hope’
Unite has today (March 18) announced that it will campaign for the country to remain a member of the European Union. The union’s 63-strong executive council, drawn from workplaces across…Read more…
Sticking with the union: Why the EU referendum matters to working Britons
I grew up in Oxford and I was living there the last time we had a referendum, back in 1975. Only then, of course it was called the EEC, the European Economic Community. My dad worked at the Cowley car works and was a shop steward there. He was anti the EEC because he didn’t…
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Unison’s Labour MEPs are in for services, rights and jobs
Some great reasons from UNISON MEPs on staying “IN” the European Union. Check out also the website “Another Europe is Possible”.
“Unison’s Labour MEPs: Theresa Griffin, Jude Kirton-Darling, Richard Howitt, Mary Honeyball, Linda McAvan and Claude Mor…Read more…
EU: Vote for democracy and hope
When I vote for Britain to remain in the EU in June, and when I argue for the members of my union and others to do likewise in the months ahead, I will not be voting for the status quo. I will…Read more…
Private Eye, EU referendums and the Role of Coincidence
Chance and coincidence can be a bit weird and unsettling but you have to accept that it just happens from time to time.
This morning in Newham, by chance I spotted a bundle of papers including musical scores dumped next to a communal recycling b…Read more…
Women workers & the EU referendum
Frances O’Grady addressed the TUC Women’s Conference in London on Wednesday 9 March. Here is an edited version of the section of her speech that focused on the EU referendum, and the…Read more…
Not for the status quo
Last night (March 9) Unite general secretary Len McCluskey addressed an audience at the German Embassy in London on why he will be voting to stay in the EU. You can read his full speech below. …Read more…