FOLLOWING The Green Party’s Elise Benjamin letter ‘EU protects the rights of workers and women’ (June 6), I’d like to ask if she agrees that anyone on a zero hours contract with no job security is not being protected by the EU ?

Before mass, or net, immigration any employer offering zero hours contracts with no job security would have had no job applicants.

We are constantly being told that immigration is good for the economy – but whose economy? The landlords? Not the economy of the young.

In the 1970s a working class person on average wages who saved hard could eventually buy a house in the capital, because there was competition between businesses for workers which improves wages and conditions.

Competition between workers and/or immigrants does the opposite and pushes wages and conditions down and at the same time pushes up housing/rent costs, as recent decades have shown.

Teachers are leaving Oxford because of this, and the answer is NOT immigrant teachers. There is no benefit to the ‘economy of the young’ in remaining in the EU unless a certain major domestic political party abandons workers rights, which appears to be happening.

The EU favours TTIP which puts big business first and has caused riots in Europe. The EU’s TTIP means government gets sued by big business if workers rights are improved.

S NICHOLSON
Campbell Road, Oxford