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Co-sign the letter to David Cameron demanding he tell us why he
wants to cut our rights at work. Dear Mr Cameron, In December we delivered a Christmas Card calling on you to reverse your plans to pull the UK out of the Social Chapter and destroy the many rights that support families’ work life balance – a subject you have talked about at length in the press. Only weeks later, it seems that you have revealed your true intentions. In the Daily Telegraph (9 January 2010) you openly praised Margaret Thatcher’s authoritarian anti-union legislation and even threatened to go further to dilute workers’ rights. We think you are wrong – and that the way to support families in this country is to recognise that rights at work matter. You may pretend to have our interests at heart, but the facts are clear. Your plans to pull out of the Social Chapter will undermine our legal guarantees to: • Four weeks paid holiday • The right to be consulted about changes at work and our entitlement to parental leave • Equality between men and women in the labour market and at work • Social security and social protection for workers • Protection of workers where their employment contract is terminated • A minimum of 26 weeks maternity leave for women, and two weeks for men • The Temporary Agency Workers directive, which will ensure that 1.3 million workers for these agencies will be given pay and paid holidays comparable to the equivalent full-time employee doing the same job. • Laws to ensure that workers retain basic employment, pension and seniority rights if their company is taken over We want you to come clean with the public and tell us why you think it’s a good idea to scrap Britain’s guarantee to these rights by pulling out of the Social Chapter. Yours sincerely, Byron Taylor

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