1. 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

2. Time of hard choices
Competition
Co-operation
Solidarity

3. Priorities for trade unions
Jobs
Standards
Workers rights
Union strength

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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