TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS POST-BREXIT: setting standards in UK industries Diana Holland Unite Assistant General Secretary Transport – Equalities – Food & Agriculture Institute of Employment Rights Conference Post Brexit employment rights and trade deals

Time of hard choices Competition Co-operation Solidarity

Priorities for trade unions Jobs Standards Workers rights Union strength

EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier It is not possible to retain the benefits of the single market if a country is not a member – “The consequences are the choice of the UK not the EU” “If we are to ratify a Free Trade Agreement with UK it will require the agreement of the EU Parliament and the 27 member states” Cuts to UK workers rights must not be allowed to undermine EU standards. We cannot have the UK undercutting the EU with low pay, lower social standards, and tax haven status

UK workers rights and standards A race to the bottom or a race to the top? ILO Core labour standards : no child labour, no forced labour, free trade unions and collective bargaining, no discrimination Industrial standards – eg food, specifications in manufacturing, driving hours Tarifs and procedures – Imports/Exports and eg Just in Time production, shelf-life Migrant workers

Trade union action MEMBERSHIP AND ORGANISATION STRONG SUPPORTED REPS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING STRENGTH ACTION ON TRAINING, EQUALITY, HEALTH & SAFETY STANDARD-SETTING : PDP, GLAA, LPC, HSE ALLIANCES : Sustain, DODF, FDF, EEF LABOUR MANIFESTO : Sectoral Collective bargaining, Union equality reps OUTWARD CAMPAIGNING FOR OUR PRIORITIES FOR EU EXIT

EQUALITY not discrimination TRADE UNION RIGHTS not exploitation Now is the time for … UNITY not division EQUALITY not discrimination TRADE UNION RIGHTS not exploitation SOLIDARITY not hatred