Extracts from Lords debate on Brexit and the Labour Market (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Feb 8
Friday, 9 February 2018 06:51
Lord Lea of Crondall (Lab):...As for the trade union movement—I
speak in the presence of a former general-secretary of the European
Trade Union Confederation, my noble friend Lord Monks—we have
European works councils in hundreds of firms, where we meet and
discuss matters and people get to know best practice in all the
different countries. I wish the report had paid more attention to
the nature of the European labour market. The most obvious example,
which everyone can understand, is the...Request free trial
(Lab):...As for
the trade union movement—I speak in the presence of a former
general-secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, my
noble friend —we have European works
councils in hundreds of firms, where we meet and discuss matters
and people get to know best practice in all the different
countries. I wish the report had paid more attention to the nature
of the European labour market. The most obvious example, which
everyone can understand, is the single factory floor in big
component-supplying companies along with the final output
in Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Jaguar Land Rover. Then
there are logistical companies, as well as those dealing with food
and pharmaceuticals and so on, for example Unilever. They are not
only in one enterprise; they move around many of them all the time.
We are having this debate against a background where even today a
newspaper says that the majority of the Cabinet want a migration
policy that would be the same for Europeans as for the rest of the
world. I repeat that that would be a catastrophe. However, I do not
think it will happen; reality will overtake it, and the
Conservative Party will have to sort itself out...
(Lab
Co-op):...My noble friend Lord Darling commented on the
necessity for the Government to consult with business about its
needs to ensure that we have the right skillsets post Brexit. I
have visited Rolls-Royce in Derby and in Dahlewitz
outside Berlin. There is great co-operation between the two
factories, with workers and products moving back and forth between
the two, but that will be at risk if we get Brexit wrong...
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