TUC welcomes Labour leader’s commitment to EU workers’ rights

14 April 2016

Commenting on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s speech today (Thursday) on the UK’s membership of the EU, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:

“The Labour leader is absolutely right to warn that Brexit is a danger to workers’ jobs and rights. The broader labour movement is united behind the benefits of EU membership for working people.

“Many of the biggest cheerleaders for Brexit have spent years dismissing rights like paid leave and maternity protections as ‘red tape’ to be binned. So we know from their hostility that the threat to workers’ rights if we leave the EU is very real.”

NOTES TO EDITORS:

- The TUC has published an independent legal opinion commissioned by the TUC from leading employment lawyer Michael Ford QC on the workers’ rights at risk from Brexit. A full copy can be found at www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/Brexit%20Legal%20Opinion.pdf

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