Retention Of The Multi-Fibre Arrangement

EDM number 1446 in 1989-90, proposed by Bob Cryer on 23/10/1990.

That this House welcomes the lobby of the textile workers and expresses strong opposition to the Government policy of phasing out the Multi-Fibre Arrangement from 1991 without any safeguards yet in place and without any transition period to ensure preservation of a strong textile industry; and reminds the Government that child labour, absence of health and safety laws and trade union rights, dumping, outward processing and fraudulent trade marks are the hallmark of some areas of so-called competition, and that without proper safeguards there will be further catastrophic job losses, in an industry already struggling against high interest rates and an over-valued pound and members of a skilled and dedicated work-force will be thrown on the scrap-heap.

This motion has been signed by a total of 54 MPs.