Firms must not
use the UK's vote for an exit from the European Union as an excuse to cut jobs
and spending, trade union bodies have warned.
Unite said it
was "not prepared to see Brexit used as a smokescreen" for firms to
cut their investments in the UK.
"Out of
the EU must not mean out of work," Unite general secretary Len McCluskey
said at the TUC Congress.
TUC general
secretary Frances O'Grady said she was also worried workers' rights might be
eroded by the EU vote.
"We've
had the votes, the vote was close but clear and now our job is to get on with
representing working people, whichever way they cast their vote, and make sure
that they don't pay the price of a Brexit," she said.
Mr McCluskey
called on unions to "pick up the pieces" following the referendum
result to protect workers' rights.
The annual trade’s
union conference is the first to be held since the EU referendum vote.
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