Conrad Landin
British workers’ wages could fall further as a result of EU membership, top employment lawyer John Hendy warned yesterday.
Mr Hendy, who will address the Trade Unionists Against the EU fringe meeting at the TUC Congress, said the EU employment model calls for wages to reflect productivity, and could lead to pay being slashed to “compete” with the economies of France and Germany.
The meeting next Tuesday lunchtime will also hear from Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, who will brand the EU “anti-democratic and anti-socialist.”
Mr Hendy said: “The European Commission, IMF and the European Central Bank now directly intervene in national wage negotiations in Ireland, Greece and Romania in order to weaken collective bargaining.”
Announcing the meeting yesterday, TUAEU spokesman Brian Denny said the EU was sucking wealth from poorer countries such as Greece and Ukraine.
“This colonial transfer of capital takes the form of interest payments on ever-rising debt, creating permanent austerity which enforces mass privatisation and allows the takeover of the colony’s banking system to transfer wealth to private bankers and investors,” he said.
“That is the structural adjustment model we are being asked to accept by the Europhiles, yet working people don’t want it, so the labour movement is at a crossroads — embrace this imperialist nightmare or resist and say No.”
No to the EU in Norway spokeswoman Helle Hagenau will highlight the role of the European bosses’ club in entrenching privatisation through dodgy trade deals.
British workers’ wages could fall further as a result of EU membership, top employment lawyer John Hendy warned yesterday.
Mr Hendy, who will address the Trade Unionists Against the EU fringe meeting at the TUC Congress, said the EU employment model calls for wages to reflect productivity, and could lead to pay being slashed to “compete” with the economies of France and Germany.
The meeting next Tuesday lunchtime will also hear from Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, who will brand the EU “anti-democratic and anti-socialist.”
Mr Hendy said: “The European Commission, IMF and the European Central Bank now directly intervene in national wage negotiations in Ireland, Greece and Romania in order to weaken collective bargaining.”
Announcing the meeting yesterday, TUAEU spokesman Brian Denny said the EU was sucking wealth from poorer countries such as Greece and Ukraine.
“This colonial transfer of capital takes the form of interest payments on ever-rising debt, creating permanent austerity which enforces mass privatisation and allows the takeover of the colony’s banking system to transfer wealth to private bankers and investors,” he said.
“That is the structural adjustment model we are being asked to accept by the Europhiles, yet working people don’t want it, so the labour movement is at a crossroads — embrace this imperialist nightmare or resist and say No.”
No to the EU in Norway spokeswoman Helle Hagenau will highlight the role of the European bosses’ club in entrenching privatisation through dodgy trade deals.
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