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Treatment Of Transport Workers In Kyivpastrans In Ukraine

EDM number 934 in 2016-17, proposed by John Cryer on 08/02/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Eastern Europe and Industrial relations.

That this House is deeply concerned at the treatment of workers of the Kurynivske trolleybus depot of the Municipal Enterprise, Kyivpastrans, in Ukraine currently on hunger strike; notes that members of the Free Trade Union of Railway Workers of Ukraine have sought legal recognition and raised concerns regarding unsafe vehicles, while in response trade union members have been subjected to intimidation and been denied wages, suspended and evicted from company-provided housing while there has been physical violence against a woman employee; further notes that these matters are known to the State Labour Service of Ukraine; condemns such conduct as in violation of the ILO Conventions and the requirements of the Association Agreement with the EU; calls on Kiev City Mayor, Vitali Klitschko, to intervene and ensure the cancellation of all the evictions of union members from their accommodation, reinstatement of dismissed employees, and a full investigation into all forms of intimidation against trade union members; and further calls upon the Mayor to start negotiations with the union.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
John Cryer08/02/2017Leyton and WansteadLabourProposed
Jim Shannon09/02/2017StrangfordDUPSeconded
Dennis Skinner09/02/2017BolsoverLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan09/02/2017FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Chris Stephens09/02/2017Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySeconded
Alex Salmond09/02/2017Seconded
Margaret Ferrier09/02/2017Rutherglen and Hamilton WestScottish National PartySigned
Drew Hendry09/02/2017Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
John Nicolson20/02/2017East DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Chris Law20/02/2017Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown20/02/2017Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Angus MacNeil20/02/2017Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Marion Fellows20/02/2017Motherwell and WishawScottish National PartySigned
Natalie McGarry21/02/2017Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Kelvin Hopkins21/02/2017Luton NorthLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham21/02/2017Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Alan Meale21/02/2017MansfieldLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell22/02/2017Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Mary Glindon22/02/2017North TynesideLabourSigned
David Crausby22/02/2017Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Virendra Sharma23/02/2017Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Owen Thompson23/02/2017MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
Alasdair McDonnell08/03/2017Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned

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