British Democracy Forum - View Single Post

ALLAN J PHILLIPS · 17-02-2007, 06:48 PM

There are several factors which cause job losses. Some of them are:

The deliberate unashamed movement of capital, whole factories and jobs from Britain. One of the victims has been the closure of the Peugeot plant in Ryton, Coventry, moved to a prepared plant in Slovakia. One million manufacturing jobs have been lost since 1997.

The Government must control the export of capital and jobs even if this offends EU policies emanating from Brussels and also ignore and resist EU Directives. The responsibility of government must be to look after the best interests of the people of Britain and not the profits of transnational corporations.

We must leave the EU so that Britain can run its own affairs instead of carrying out orders from Brussels. This must include taking back powers over the economy and the right to promote and protect industries and jobs.

The current Labour Government enthusiastically promotes EU policies and has failed to protect those it should represent with complete disregard for the social and economic consequences for those who work for their living.

Most trade union leaders, the TUC and the 80% funded European TUC take part in the "social partnership" with the EU Commission and employers who seem to have failed to look after the interests of their members.

To stop the rot it is necessary for union members to pressurise their unions to cease support for the EU social partnership and EU institutions promoting the federal "free market" and to take action to prevent the loss of jobs by applying pressure on government to ignore EU directives, laws and policies. In parallel, and to enable this to be done, campaigns should be enhanced for the removal of the Tory and New Labour anti-trade union laws.

17-02-2007, 06:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
ALLAN J PHILLIPS Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: BIRMINGHAM Posts: 34	THE UNIONS SHOULD WAKE UP There are several factors which cause job losses. Some of them are: The deliberate unashamed movement of capital, whole factories and jobs from Britain. One of the victims has been the closure of the Peugeot plant in Ryton, Coventry, moved to a prepared plant in Slovakia. One million manufacturing jobs have been lost since 1997. The Government must control the export of capital and jobs even if this offends EU policies emanating from Brussels and also ignore and resist EU Directives. The responsibility of government must be to look after the best interests of the people of Britain and not the profits of transnational corporations. We must leave the EU so that Britain can run its own affairs instead of carrying out orders from Brussels. This must include taking back powers over the economy and the right to promote and protect industries and jobs. The current Labour Government enthusiastically promotes EU policies and has failed to protect those it should represent with complete disregard for the social and economic consequences for those who work for their living. Most trade union leaders, the TUC and the 80% funded European TUC take part in the "social partnership" with the EU Commission and employers who seem to have failed to look after the interests of their members. To stop the rot it is necessary for union members to pressurise their unions to cease support for the EU social partnership and EU institutions promoting the federal "free market" and to take action to prevent the loss of jobs by applying pressure on government to ignore EU directives, laws and policies. In parallel, and to enable this to be done, campaigns should be enhanced for the removal of the Tory and New Labour anti-trade union laws. __________________ I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE EU DICTATORSHIP AND I CAMPAIGN TO GET US OUT OF THIS UNDEMOCRATIC AND DANGEROUS EU.