SIX REASONS TO LEAVE THE EU

1 LEAVE THE EU TO END ATTACKS ON TRANSPORT WORKERS European Union rail policies further entrench rail privatisation and fragmentation. That will mean more attacks or jobs and conditions and EU law will make it impossible to bring all of rail back into public ownership. 2 LEAVE THE EU TO END ATTACKS ON SEAFARERS AND THE OFFSHORE WORKERS The EU has promoted undercutting and social dumping leading to the decimation of UK seafarers’ jobs. The same is now happening in the offshore sector. EU directives also require the tendering our public ferry services. 3 LEAVE THE EU TO END ATTACKS ON WORKERS’ RIGHTS It’s a myth that the EU is in favour of workers. In fact the EU is attacking trade union rights, collective bargaining, job protections and wages. This is already being enforced onto member states which have received EU “bailouts”. EU courts have also ruled that employers’ rights to ‘establishment’ overrule employment rights. 4 LEAVE THE EU TO END AUSTERITY If you join a union you expect members of the union to protect each other in times of trouble. The European Union has done the opposite. It has used the economic crisis to impose austerity and privatisation on member states. Instead of protecting jobs and investment, EU austerity is driving UK austerity. 5 LEAVE THE EU TO STOP THE ATTACK ON OUR NHS The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade agreement being negoti- ated between the EU and the United States will promote big business at the expense of government protections and public service organisations including our NHS! Environ- mental regulations, employment rights, food safety, privacy laws and many other safe- guards will also be secondary to the right of corporations to make even bigger profits. 6 LEAVE THE EU TO SUPPORT DEMOCRACY The vast majority of the laws that affects our lives are now made in the EU and not the UK. We have no democratic say over those Laws. As the late Tony Benn said in 1991: “We are discussing whether the British people are to be allowed to elect those who make the laws under which they are governed. The argument is nothing to do with whether we should get more maternity leave from Madame Papandreou [a European Commissioner]”. Six reasons to vote to leave the EU on June 23 RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: april 2016 :: RMTnews 8 RMT will be promoting the six key points direct to members across all sectors of the transport industry. RMT general secretary Mick Cash said that RMT is proud of its long-standing tradition of progressive opposition to the European Union, an organisation wedded to privatisation, austerity and attacking democracy. It would be ludicrous for a union like ours to support staying in a bosses club that seeks to ban the public ownership of our railways, attacks the shipping and offshore sectors and embraces the privatisation of the NHS and other essential services that our members depend on. “RMT has set out the six core reasons for our members to vote to leave and we will be campaigning hard on this platform,” he said.