Workers Rights (EDM455)

Workers Rights

EDM number 455 in 2000-01, proposed by Tony Benn on 15/03/2001.

That this House is of the opinion that every worker should have the right to union membership for the protection of her occupational, social and economic rights, and not to be discriminated against on grounds of union membership or participation in union activities or using union services, to be a union representative and, if so, to have reasonable time off and not to be discriminated against, to be represented by the union, individually or collectively, on any work issue, to have the right to take industrial action to protect his or her or any other worker's occupational, social or economic interests without being in breach of contract, without threat of dismissal or discrimination and to picket any workplace relevant to the dispute.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Tony Benn	15/03/2001	Chesterfield	Labour	Proposed
Alan Simpson	15/03/2001	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	15/03/2001	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Alice Mahon	15/03/2001	Halifax	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	15/03/2001	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
John Cryer	15/03/2001	Hornchurch	Labour	Signed
Maria Fyfe	15/03/2001	Glasgow, Maryhill	Labour	Signed
Diane Abbott	15/03/2001	Hackney North & Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed
Robert Wareing	15/03/2001	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed
Tom Cox	16/03/2001	Tooting	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	16/03/2001	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Ashok Kumar	19/03/2001	Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	19/03/2001	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
Frank Cook	19/03/2001	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	19/03/2001	Heywood & Middleton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Ian Gibson	19/03/2001	Norwich North	Labour	Signed
Harry Barnes	19/03/2001	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Simon Thomas	20/03/2001	Ceredigion	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Norman Godman	20/03/2001	Greenock & Inverclyde	Labour	Signed
Eric Clarke	20/03/2001	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Bill Michie	20/03/2001	Sheffield, Heeley	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	20/03/2001	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Syd Rapson	20/03/2001	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	20/03/2001	Gower	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	21/03/2001	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Stephen Ladyman	21/03/2001	South Thanet	Labour	Signed
Terry Lewis	21/03/2001	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	21/03/2001	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Chris McCafferty	21/03/2001	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
John McWilliam	21/03/2001	Blaydon	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	21/03/2001	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Terry Davis	21/03/2001	Birmingham, Hodge Hill	Labour	Signed
David Drew	22/03/2001	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Dennis Skinner	22/03/2001	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Harold Best	23/03/2001	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Tony Banks	26/03/2001	West Ham	Labour	Signed
Michael Connarty	28/03/2001	Falkirk East	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	28/03/2001	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	29/03/2001	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	02/04/2001	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Edward O'Hara	04/04/2001	Knowsley South	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	04/04/2001	Burton	Labour	Signed
David Hinchliffe	05/04/2001	Wakefield	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	05/04/2001	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Russell Brown	25/04/2001	Dumfries	Labour	Signed
Malcolm Savidge	26/04/2001	Aberdeen North	Labour	Signed
John Austin	02/05/2001	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed

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