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IRAQI TRANSPORT UNIONS' VISIT TO THE UK

EDM number 926 in 2007-08, proposed by David Anderson on 18/02/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Industrial relations and Iraq.

That this House warmly welcomes the visit to the UK, as guests of the Trades Union Congress and assisted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of a senior delegation for several transport unions in Iraq and the Kurdistan region in Iraq including a briefing meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on 20th February in the Thatcher Room; notes that the participants Mr Hussain Jasim Almohammed, Vice President of the Transport and Communication Workers Union, Mr Turki Lazm Jbara, President of the All Ports Workers' Union, Mrs Slafa Mahmood Mohammed, Member of the Baghdad Railway Workers' Union Committee and Mr Essmat Khalid Saleem, President of the Transport Workers' Union in Duhok will visit different parts of the UK; and urges increased support for the Iraqi trade union movement in its efforts to unite working people.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Anderson18/02/2008BlaydonLabourProposed
Denis Murphy18/02/2008WansbeckLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley19/02/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Martin Caton19/02/2008GowerLabourSeconded
Angus MacNeil19/02/2008Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySeconded
Ann Cryer19/02/2008KeighleyLabourSeconded
Brian Jenkins19/02/2008TamworthLabourSigned
David Lepper19/02/2008Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
John McDonnell19/02/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
David Drew19/02/2008StroudLabourSigned
Mark Durkan19/02/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Mike Hancock19/02/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Anderson20/02/2008Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Rudi Vis20/02/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Hywel Francis20/02/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin20/02/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Lynne Jones20/02/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
George Howarth20/02/2008Knowsley North and Sefton EastLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins20/02/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore20/02/2008HendonLabourSigned
Greg Pope21/02/2008HyndburnLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd21/02/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Jeremy Corbyn21/02/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn21/02/2008Newport WestLabourSigned
David Hamilton21/02/2008MidlothianLabourSigned
Jim Devine21/02/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Marsha Singh22/02/2008Bradford WestLabourSigned
David Borrow22/02/2008South RibbleLabourSigned
John Austin22/02/2008Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Bill Etherington22/02/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Clive Efford22/02/2008ElthamLabourSigned
Janet Dean22/02/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Alan Simpson26/02/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Si28/02/2008Swansea EastLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell03/03/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Michael Jabez Foster05/03/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned

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