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Employment Practices Of Starlight Garments

EDM number 186 in 1995-96, proposed by Janet Anderson on 07/12/1995.

That this House is appalled to learn that Starlight Garmentsof Blackburn have been employing constituents of the honourable Member for Rossendale and Darwen at a rate of ú57 for a 42 hour week; notes with concern that some of these employees had their weekly wages reduced to ú25 because Starlight felt they worked too slowly, and that when they had paid their daily bus fares of ú1.60, this left them with a miserly ú17 for a forty-two and a half hourweek; condemns the wholly unacceptable employment practices of Starlight Garments which would have been worthy of Ebeneezer Scrooge; and calls upon the company immediately to give their workers a fair day's pay for a fair day's work.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Janet Anderson07/12/1995Rossendale & DarwenProposed
Colin Pickthall07/12/1995West LancashireSigned
Greg Pope07/12/1995HyndburnSigned
Gordon Prentice07/12/1995PendleSigned
George Howarth07/12/1995Knowsley NorthSigned
John Hutton07/12/1995Barrow & FurnessSigned
Bridget Prentice08/12/1995Lewisham EastSigned
Tom Cox08/12/1995TootingSigned
Barry Jones11/12/1995Alyn & DeesideSigned
Harry Barnes11/12/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Kenneth Eastham11/12/1995Manchester, BlackleySigned
Lawrence Cunliffe11/12/1995LeighSigned
Jeremy Corbyn11/12/1995Islington NorthSigned
Michael Connarty11/12/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Elliot Morley11/12/1995Glanford and ScunthorpeSigned
Roy Hughes11/12/1995Newport EastSigned
Peter Hardy11/12/1995WentworthSigned
Robert Parry11/12/1995Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Peter Pike11/12/1995BurnleySigned
David Clelland12/12/1995Tyne BridgeSigned
Dennis Turner12/12/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
John Evans12/12/1995St Helens NorthSigned
John Cummings12/12/1995EasingtonSigned
Eric Clarke12/12/1995MidlothianSigned
Ronnie Campbell12/12/1995Blyth ValleySigned
Bill Michie12/12/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Alan Meale12/12/1995MansfieldSigned
Lynne Jones12/12/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Rachel Squire12/12/1995Dunfermline WestSigned
Terry Rooney12/12/1995Bradford NorthSigned
James Callaghan12/12/1995Heywood & MiddletonSigned
Michael Clapham13/12/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Hugh Bayley13/12/1995York, City ofSigned
Mike Hall13/12/1995Warrington SouthSigned
John Gunnell13/12/1995Leeds South and MorleySigned
Maria Fyfe13/12/1995Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Jean Corston13/12/1995Bristol EastSigned
Richard Burden13/12/1995Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
John McAllion13/12/1995Dundee EastSigned
Alice Mahon13/12/1995HalifaxSigned
Ken Livingstone13/12/1995Brent EastSigned
Eric Illsley13/12/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Dennis Skinner13/12/1995BolsoverSigned
Ernie Ross13/12/1995Dundee WestSigned
David Hanson13/12/1995DelynSigned
William McKelvey13/12/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Alan Simpson14/12/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Win Griffiths14/12/1995BridgendSigned
Nick Ainger14/12/1995PembrokeSigned
Neil Gerrard14/12/1995WalthamstowSigned
Martyn Jones19/12/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Llin Golding19/12/1995Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Nigel Griffiths20/12/1995Edinburgh SouthSigned
Audrey Wise06/02/1996PrestonSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours15/02/1996WorkingtonSigned

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