Tag: Hard Border
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Northern Ireland political representatives must support a form of customs union to avoid a damaging hard border
North-South or East-West hard border unavoidable if UK does not retain a customs union arrangement with EU Given binding backstop already agreed, a vote against a customs union is a vote for a hard sea border between NI and GB In the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive, Unite Regional Coordinating Officer, Davy Thompson,…
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ICTU Biennial Delegates Conference: Speech by Jimmy Kelly moving Unite motion on Brexit
July 5th: Moving his union’s motion on the need for a coordinated response to the Brexit referendum vote at the Irish Congress of Trade Union’s Biennial Delegate Conference in Belfast, Regional Secretary Jimmy Kelly said: On June 23rd of last year voters across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted in the most significant referendum…