BY ALAN JONES
the right deal’ “
I can talk to my members about finances, pensions, job security, even their personal lives. But it’s a completely different matter with Brexit. A lot of people have closed up on the debate, frustrated that it has taken so long to sort out. They just want it done
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Unite deputy convenor, Rolls-Royce, Derby
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Manufacturing 999 – Unite fights to stop UK manufacturing crashing out in a no deal Brexit
March, stock could be stored for four weeks,” he told uniteWORKS.
“But now it feels more like a ‘suck it and see’ attitude. There has always been a view that no-one would buy a Bentley built abroad – but people have done that and will continue to do so.”
Stu says workers in the factory, which employs 4,500, are also fed up with Brexit, but he warns, “I don’t subscribe to the idea that we should just get on with it and leave. It has to be the right deal.”
Unite’s research for its document on the impact of Brexit shows how many sectors will be affected – ranging from automotive, aerospace and construction, to food and drink, agriculture and even the voluntary sector.
It highlights how the union’s Brexit Agreement template has helped to defend pay and conditions and resist the many negative consequences of crashing out of the EU.
It also brings a strong trade union voice into what is often seen as purely a political
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issue – a perspective that has been marginalised or even ignored.
The document concludes, “The workplace is the main arena where the impact of Brexit will be revealed. As such it is also where trade unionists can have the most influence over the direction Brexit takes.”
If Boris Johnson ever decides to take up Steve Turner’s offer of meeting workers, he would see for himself why Unite general secretary Len McCluskey believes the UK is in the grip of a manufacturing emergency.
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