Co-Steel Sheerness
EDM number 97 in 1996-97, proposed by DN Campbell-Savours on 30/10/1996.
That this House notes that, in March 1992, Co-Steel Sheerness, in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, through a campaign of threats and intimidation, derecognised freely and democractically chosen trade unions and withdrew the right to collective bargaining; notes that over 78 per cent. of ISTC members voted for collective bargaining and union recognition; supports the joint ISTC/AEEU campaign for trade union recognition at the plant; notes that Co-Steel's Personnel Director, Hugh Billot, revealed that five per cent. to six per cent. of employees who resisted the changes were `terminated'; notes that acc ess to company premises was denied to trade unions and that these blatant anti-union activities by Canadian owned Co-Steel led to protests at the company's headquarters by the United Steelworkers of America; notes the recommendation in June of the United Nations International Labour Organisation that the United Kingdom Government should launch an immediate inquiry into the activities of Co-Steel and that section 13 of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 should be amended to provide a defence in British law against anti-union discrimination so that it ensures workers' organisations adequate protection from acts of interference on the part of the employer and so that it does not result in fact in the discouragement of collective bargaining; calls for an immediate and specific Government response in line with Britain's ratification of ILO Conventions 87 and 98 and international obligations to protect human rights; and further advises those touting suchoutmoded and shortsighted management philosophies to stay away from the productive and forward looking steel plant in Workington.
This motion has been signed by a total of 106 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
Dale Campbell-Savours | 30/10/1996 | Workington | | Proposed |
Colin Pickthall | 31/10/1996 | West Lancashire | | Signed |
Peter Pike | 31/10/1996 | Burnley | | Signed |
Greg Pope | 31/10/1996 | Hyndburn | | Signed |
Gordon Prentice | 31/10/1996 | Pendle | | Signed |
Barry Jones | 31/10/1996 | Alyn & Deeside | | Signed |
Bill Michie | 31/10/1996 | Sheffield, Heeley | | Signed |
John Evans | 31/10/1996 | St Helens North | | Signed |
Neil Gerrard | 31/10/1996 | Walthamstow | | Signed |
Harry Barnes | 31/10/1996 | North East Derbyshire | | Signed |
Don Touhig | 31/10/1996 | Islwyn | | Signed |
Nigel Jones | 04/11/1996 | Cheltenham | | Signed |
Michael Clapham | 05/11/1996 | Barnsley West & Penistone | | Signed |
Michael Connarty | 05/11/1996 | Falkirk East | | Signed |
Ian Davidson | 05/11/1996 | Glasgow, Govan | | Signed |
Paul Flynn | 05/11/1996 | Newport West | | Signed |
John Heppell | 06/11/1996 | Nottingham East | | Signed |
Mike Hall | 06/11/1996 | Warrington South | | Signed |
Dennis Turner | 06/11/1996 | Wolverhampton South East | | Signed |
John Spellar | 07/11/1996 | Warley West | | Signed |
Martyn Jones | 07/11/1996 | Clwyd South West | | Signed |
Eddie Loyden | 11/11/1996 | Liverpool, Garston | | Signed |
David Clelland | 11/11/1996 | Tyne Bridge | | Signed |
Denis MacShane | 20/11/1996 | Rotherham | | Signed |
Terry Rooney | 21/11/1996 | Bradford North | | Signed |
Alan Simpson | 26/11/1996 | Nottingham South | | Signed |
Roy Hughes | 26/11/1996 | Newport East | | Signed |
Alice Mahon | 26/11/1996 | Halifax | | Signed |
Kevin McNamara | 26/11/1996 | Kingston upon Hull North | | Signed |
Elliot Morley | 26/11/1996 | Glanford and Scunthorpe | | Signed |
Chris Mullin | 26/11/1996 | Sunderland South | | Signed |
Keith Bradley | 26/11/1996 | Manchester, Withington | | Signed |
James Callaghan | 26/11/1996 | Heywood & Middleton | | Signed |
Ann Clwyd | 26/11/1996 | Cynon Valley | | Signed |
Harry Cohen | 26/11/1996 | Leyton | | Signed |
Lawrence Cunliffe | 26/11/1996 | Leigh | | Signed |
Kenneth Eastham | 26/11/1996 | Manchester, Blackley | | Signed |
John Fraser | 26/11/1996 | Norwood | | Signed |
Diane Abbott | 26/11/1996 | Hackney North & Stoke Newington | | Signed |
Win Griffiths | 26/11/1996 | Bridgend | | Signed |
Clive Betts | 26/11/1996 | Sheffield, Attercliffe | | Signed |
Jack Thompson | 26/11/1996 | Wansbeck | | Signed |
Alan Wynne Williams | 26/11/1996 | Carmarthen | | Signed |
Ted Rowlands | 27/11/1996 | Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney | | Signed |
Dennis Skinner | 27/11/1996 | Bolsover | | Signed |
Llew Smith | 27/11/1996 | Blaenau Gwent | | Signed |
Thomas McAvoy | 27/11/1996 | Glasgow, Rutherglen | | Signed |
Bill Olner | 27/11/1996 | Nuneaton | | Signed |
Brian H Donohoe | 27/11/1996 | Cunninghame South | | Signed |
Joe Benton | 27/11/1996 | Bootle | | Signed |
Peter Snape | 28/11/1996 | West Bromwich East | | Signed |
Nick Harvey | 28/11/1996 | North Devon | | Signed |
Piara S Khabra | 28/11/1996 | Ealing, Southall | | Signed |
Bill O'Brien | 28/11/1996 | Normanton | | Signed |
David Winnick | 28/11/1996 | Walsall North | | Signed |
Doug Hoyle | 29/11/1996 | Warrington North | | Signed |
Tom Pendry | 02/12/1996 | Stalybridge & Hyde | | Signed |
Stuart Randall | 02/12/1996 | Kingston upon Hull West | | Signed |
Ernie Ross | 02/12/1996 | Dundee West | | Signed |
Peter Hardy | 02/12/1996 | Wentworth | | Signed |
George Howarth | 02/12/1996 | Knowsley North | | Signed |
Robert Hughes | 02/12/1996 | Aberdeen North | | Signed |
Helen Jackson | 02/12/1996 | Sheffield, Hillsborough | | Signed |
Calum MacDonald | 02/12/1996 | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | | Signed |
William McKelvey | 02/12/1996 | Kilmarnock & Loudoun | | Signed |
Martin O'Neill | 02/12/1996 | Clackmannan | | Signed |
Stan Orme | 02/12/1996 | Salford East | | Signed |
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 02/12/1996 | Crewe & Nantwich | | Signed |
Kevin Barron | 02/12/1996 | Rother Valley | | Signed |
Allan Rogers | 03/12/1996 | Rhondda | | Signed |
Clive Soley | 03/12/1996 | Hammersmith | | Signed |
Gerald Kaufman | 03/12/1996 | Manchester, Gorton | | Signed |
John Marek | 03/12/1996 | Wrexham | | Signed |
Donald Dixon | 03/12/1996 | Jarrow | | Signed |
Gerry Sutcliffe | 03/12/1996 | Bradford South | | Signed |
Gareth Wardell | 03/12/1996 | Gower | | Signed |
Alf Morris | 04/12/1996 | Manchester Wythenshawe | | Signed |
John Morris | 04/12/1996 | Aberavon | | Signed |
Llin Golding | 04/12/1996 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | | Signed |
Alan Keen | 05/12/1996 | Feltham & Heston | | Signed |
Joan Lestor | 05/12/1996 | Eccles | | Signed |
Eric Martlew | 05/12/1996 | Carlisle | | Signed |
Andrew Miller | 05/12/1996 | Ellesmere Port & Neston | | Signed |
Jim Cunningham | 05/12/1996 | Coventry South East | | Signed |
Bill Etherington | 05/12/1996 | Sunderland North | | Signed |
Gerry Steinberg | 05/12/1996 | Durham, City of | | Signed |
Ken Livingstone | 06/12/1996 | Brent East | | Signed |
Nick Brown | 06/12/1996 | Newcastle upon Tyne East | | Signed |
Roger Godsiff | 06/12/1996 | Birmingham Small Heath | | Signed |
Jon Trickett | 06/12/1996 | Hemsworth | | Signed |
Austin Mitchell | 09/12/1996 | Great Grimsby | | Signed |
Ian McCartney | 10/12/1996 | Makerfield | | Signed |
Tony Worthington | 10/12/1996 | Clydebank & Milngavie | | Signed |
Raymond Powell | 17/12/1996 | Ogmore | | Signed |
Brian Sedgemore | 17/12/1996 | Hackney South & Shoreditch | | Signed |
Nigel Spearing | 17/12/1996 | Newham South | | Signed |
Kevin Hughes | 17/12/1996 | Doncaster North | | Signed |
John Maxton | 17/12/1996 | Glasgow, Cathcart | | Signed |
John McAllion | 17/12/1996 | Dundee East | | Signed |
Ann Coffey | 17/12/1996 | Stockport | | Signed |
Mark Fisher | 17/12/1996 | Stoke-on-Trent Central | | Signed |
Robert Wareing | 17/12/1996 | Liverpool, West Derby | | Signed |
James Wray | 17/12/1996 | Glasgow Provan | | Signed |
John McWilliam | 18/12/1996 | Blaydon | | Signed |
Paul Murphy | 17/03/1997 | Torfaen | | Signed |
Richard Alexander | Unknown | | | Withdrawn |
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