UK leaving single market for TPP could hit workers' rights, union warns

TUC delivers stark warning about labour abuses after trade secretary Liam Fox refuses to rule out membership of TPPTrade unions have issued a warning about the possible impact on workers’ rights if Britain leaves Europe’s single market and instead seeks to join a flagship Pacific trading group after Brexit.After claims that officials had embarked on informal talks about future membership of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady, said su