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

Trade 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 such a move would be “scraping the bottom of the Brexit barrel”.“Trade unions around the world have