Transport union RMT voted yesterday at its Annual General Meeting in Newcastle to campaign against continued membership of the EU in the promised referendum.
Transport union RMT voted yesterday at its Annual General Meeting in Newcastle to campaign against continued membership of the EU in the promised referendum. The vote re-affirms the union’s longstanding opposition to the European Union.
The vote is in stark contrast to the supine position of the TUC, which in its briefing to MPs on 9 June could only urge that they support extending the right to vote in the referendum to “EU citizens living in the UK”!
“EU policies are at odds with the aspirations of this union as the various treaties and directives are demanding the privatisation of our rail and ferry industries,” said RMT general secretary Mick Cash. “The EU is also secretly negotiating trade deals with the US and Canada which will decimate of health and education sectors and hand huge powers to transnational corporations over nation states and their governments.”
“The Tories will be campaigning to stay in the EU come any referendum as they support this right wing, neo-liberal, anti-worker agenda,” he continued.