Sentences with phrase «european labour movement»
Indeed, many of them have their origins in the political and economic struggles of the nineteenth - and twentieth - century European labour movement.
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He said he did not advocate ending the free movement of labour within the European Union, or even think it possible.
With nearly 15 years of experience working within the Labour and trade union movement, she was elected Confederal Secretary at the European TUC (trade Union Congress) in 2011, one of seven elected positions, to which she was nominated by the TUC.
Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, has said that Labour should back a Remain vote in order to «re-negotiate» the free movement of people in the European Union, and he's been backed up by Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls.
Most EU immigration is of white people, so if wanting to end EU free movement of labour is racist at all then it is against white people rather than against non-white workers around the world who suffer because white Europeans get to be head of the queue for entering the UK.
If we are going to be protectionist about labour movement (and the editor has just said he is in favour of some labour protectionism), why are we favouring the Europeans, of all people?
His critics will argue Merkel, in the face of opposition to free movement reform from eastern European countries, will always choose EU cohesion over changes to the labour market.
The shadow business secretary has suggested Labour may be interested in restricting free movement within the European Union for workers who do not have the firm offer of a job.
The link between workers» rights and support for the EU amongst the British labour movement is not new and dates back to the 1980s when the TUC — faced with a domestic Conservative government hostile to trade unions and following Jacques Delors» speech advocating a social dimension to European integration — withdrew its support for the UK's withdrawal from the (then) EEC and instead adopted a positive approach to UK membership.