[IER] BREXIT: How do we stand in solidarity with both migrant and UK workers at a time of great division?

[Sarah Glenister]

Events update 16/02/17

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Migration after Brexit

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Migration after Brexit: the challenge for labour standards 2017: London
15 March 2017 - 09:30 - 15:15
Unite the Union, London
This conference will cover migration policy after Brexit, both from the EU and from elsewhere in the world, and the implications of future labour migration patterns for labour standards. The speakers will bring extensive expertise to the subject, as academics, campaigners and trade unionists.
Speakers include Bernard Ryan, Don Flynn, Susan Cueva, Diana Holland, Alex Balch, Alan Bogg, Owen Espley and Sonia McKay
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In some ways, immigration is a complicated issue for trade unions to address. While the labour movement has solidarity with workers across the world, the impact of free movement on UK workers has created enormous anxiety within some sections of the workforce. Indeed, Unite reported that its members have rated immigration as the most important political issue in their lives since 2009. As Len McCluskey told the Class Conference in 2016: "The free movement of labour is a class question".

Globalisation has thus far benefited the rich by pitting the poor against each other. Factories have relocated to developing countries to exploit cheap labour, leaving UK workers jobless and those overseas trapped in poor working conditions. Closer to home, free movement is being used to prop up the "flexible" labour market model, ensuring the supply of workers is always far greater than the supply of jobs, and thus driving wages and conditions down for all.

We stand in solidarity with migrant workers, whilst protecting those born in the UK, by refusing to kowtow to a narrative written by a rich elite: One that says workers should compete with one another for the benefit of the employer. By shifting the focus of employment law to collectively agreed wages and conditions,and promoting trade union membership for all - regardless of where they are born - we can transform a "race-to-the-bottom culture into a rate-for-the-job society", as Len McCluskey has said.


The Institute of Employment Rights will tackle this issue at our Migration after Brexit event on March 15, where leading academics, campaigners and trade unionists will come together to discuss the labour movement's resistance to today's elitist vision for globalisation.

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