Lakshmi Mittal And The Labour Party

EDM number 747 in 2006-07, proposed by Adam Price on 25/01/2007.

That this House notes the £2 million donation by Lakshmi Mittal to the British Labour Party; deplores the deaths of 52 miners last year in Mittal-owned coal mines due to poor safety conditions condemned by trade unionists and public officials; denounces Mittal's decision to reopen an iron-ore mine at Omarska in northern Bosnia on the site of a former concentration camp in which hundreds of Croats and Bosnians were murdered; congratulates the government of Liberia on forcing Mittal to renegotiate a 25-year iron-ore concession widely regarded as unfair and exploitative; and calls on the Labour Party, in honour of miners who lost their lives and their health while working underground in the UK coal industry, to donate the money received from Mr Mittal to the families of the bereaved in Kazakhstan and the Ukraine as a gesture of solidarity with working people everywhere exploited by global industrial tycoons.

This motion has been signed by a total of 5 MPs.