{"id":14021,"date":"2017-11-30T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14021"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:27:43","slug":"rights-rights-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14021","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Rights, rights, rights\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A clarion call to engage members, employers and politicians on the need to secure an EU exit that works for working people was issued at Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s East Midlands Brexit conference yesterday (November 29).<\/p>\n

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The Unite-organised conference, held at\u00c2\u00a0Toyota<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0Burnaston plant, was attended by reps from the manufacturing, transport and service sectors and included speakers from industry and academia.<\/p>\n

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Addressing delegates, Unite international director Simon Dubbins said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite has been active in many areas with Brexit. Keir Starmer has listened to us and\u00c2\u00a0Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s six tests for Brexit<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0are very much in line with where we are.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been active in Europe, with our sister unions, and pushing governments to demand that any EU trade deal with the UK maintains workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rights and environmental standards. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been active industrially as well, trying to make this a bargaining issue and we have a survey to keep an eye on what companies are doing.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Critical issues\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe will need from you, in the coming weeks and months, a really big effort to get your members up to speed with what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on, making sure your company understands and is using its voice to lead politicians and we need you, at the right moment, to ask your MPs about how they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to vote on some of these critical issues.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Toyota HR general manager Dave Richards said the firm shared Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerns over Brexit uncertainty and the importance of securing a transitional period and need for tariff-free frictionless trade with the EU.<\/p>\n

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Richards said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re happy to support events such as today with Unite. For all of us, from an industry perspective and from Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective, Brexit is a shared challenge. We are actively involved in making our sector\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s priorities clear to government and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you will be doing the same.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Very real risks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Leicester Law professor Adam Cygan, who is head of a project examining Brexit legislation, said it was vital that members are aware of the very real risks to their working rights.<\/p>\n

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He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s three things: rights rights rights. If you look at the some of the documents coming out of the department for international trade and Liam Fox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s select committee evidence, it is quite clear there is this Singapore, low-tax, low-rights, low-protection, low-regulation model the government are looking at.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat I would say, if one looks at the\u00c2\u00a0Withdrawal Bill<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0there is an amendment which says that the Henry VIII clauses (allowing government to change laws without parliamentary oversight) cannot be used to change employment, environmental and consumer protection rights. This should be supported on a cross party basis.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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A clarion call to engage members, employers and politicians on the need to secure an EU exit that works for working people was issued at Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s East Midlands Brexit conference yesterday (November 29).   The Unite-organised conference, held at\u00c2\u00a0Toyota\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0Burnaston plant, was attended by reps from the manufacturing, transport and service sectors and included speakers from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[486,782,838,356],"wps_subtitle":"Unite, bosses and experts discuss Brexit effect","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14023,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14021\/revisions\/14023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}