Construction Workers And The Olympic Stadia

EDM number 591 in 2005-06, proposed by Michael Clapham on 13/07/2005.

That this House congratulates the London Olympic Bid Team in bringing the 2012 Olympics to London; notes the vital role the UK's construction workers will have in delivering the stadia structure for the event; agrees with the view expressed by the Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians that construction workers should be represented on the New Organising Committee that will draw up the Fair Employment Framework outlined by Lord Coe at the 2004 Trades Union Congress; and considers that all building contractors working on the project should be obliged through the contract compliance procedure to work in partnership with the trade unions representing construction workers to deliver safe systems of work and dignified terms and conditions that can best be achieved by following the lead set by the Heathrow Terminal 5 project where the directly employed workforce has proved to be the route to a world class project being built safely and delivered on time.

This motion has been signed by a total of 64 MPs.