Keeping mum on workers’ rights
To mark Mother’s Day Glenys Kinnock, Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations, has launched a campaign in conjunction with Unions Together calling on David Cameron and the Conservative Party to come clean about the repercussions of their policy on Europe. The Conservative Party’s virulent anti-Europe position means that they could jeopardise mothers and workers rights.
Baroness Kinnock points out that European laws prevent discrimination against breast-feeding mums or on the basis of pregnancy. Most recently a European Directive on agency workers was transposed into a Statutory Instrument that provides greater protection for agency workers, including improved access to training and permanent jobs and equal treatment on pay and holiday pay.
To let Cameron know how you feel about mothers and workers rights ensured by our membership in the EU you can sign the petition at Unions Together. We can’t let the Conservatives’ anti-Europe dogma undermine hard-won rights.
