Compensation For Trawlermen

EDM number 470 in 1989-90, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 07/02/1990.

That this House commends the efforts of the Wilberforce Council and the British Fishermen's Association in Fleetwood, Grimsby and Hull, to highlight the treatment of Britain's redundant trawlermen, unjustly deprived of the redundancy pay they had paid national insurance for, when the British fishing fleet was run down, and still not compensated today because the Department of Employment has refused to fulfil its responsibilities, or accept that it did nothing to dispel the untrue impression that they were casual workers, while the vessel owners, on whom compensation was lavished, have fought every attempt to pursue justice through the courts; and calls on the Government to end this long injustice and pay the fishermen who risk life and limb for the fishing industry the compensation which is their due.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.