Spartan Redeugh Settlement

EDM number 1082 in 1992-93, proposed by David Clelland on 15/12/1992.

That this House congratulates all concerned in the settlement of the industrial dispute at Spartan Redeugh steel mill in Gateshead; reecognises that this has been achieved by a combination of the negotiating skills of the trade union officials and the final recognition by the management that the workforce could not be bullied into submission; hopes that other outstanding issues can now be resolved speedily and satisfactorily; and most of all congratulates the workers themselves, who, after engaging in the longest running strike on Tyneside, have demonstrated that, even after 13 years of Conservative government and all the anti-working class legislation that has been enacted in that time, solidarity can still win in the end.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.