Unions try to block EU Constitution

Members of more than 20 trade unions have launched a campaign against the EU Constitution, warning that it threatened jobs and democracy.

The unions, who claimed they represented the views of most workers in the UK, said the constitution "robbed" the right of countries to govern themselves.

Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport union, who chairs the group, said, "This consti-tution won't give trade unionists the rights they should have.

"However, it demands the mass privatisation of industries and services, hands big corporations huge powers to increase the exploitation of workers and the environment, and deals a further hammer blow to British manufacturing."

Source: IC Wales