GMB accuses May of letting clock run down on catastrophic no deal
Theresa May has refused to extend Article 50 despite the GMB union’s leaders pleas to her in a face-to-face meeting today.
After the meeting, GMB General Secretary Tim Roache said:
“I’m afraid to say the Prime Minister today failed to give us the guarantees we need over protecting jobs and rights at work.
“The concerns from members and their employers are mounting by the day as the clock runs down, and yet the Prime Minister is still refusing to take her threat of no deal off the table.
“We can’t carry on like this. As this crisis worsens, pretending nothing has changed is simply not good enough.
“The current deal doesn’t cut it. It pleases no one. We need a permanent customs union, legally binding commitments to workers’ rights that can’t be ignored or ripped up by a future Tory Government and a policy agenda that tackles the reasons people voted to leave in the first place.
“I asked for an extension to Article 50 but sadly the Prime Minister did not agree.”
The leaders of the Unison and Unite trade unions delivered similar messages in their meetings with May today.
The Trade Union Congress General Secretary Frances O’Grady also met with May. She said:
“The Prime minister has to stop playing to the bad boys at the back of the class and start listening to where Parliament is which is no deal off the table and more time for genuine talks to take place.”
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