Shrewsbury Pickets

EDM number 1226 in 2009-10, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 30/03/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Construction industry and Industrial relations.

That this House recalls the national trade union building workers strike of 1972 and the subsequent arrest a year later of 24 pickets, the sentences handed to six of them, and the long imprisonment served by Des Warren and Ricky Tomlinson; notes the legacy in the construction industry since the 1972 strike, including an unregulated industry, increasing casualisation through bogus self-employment, an appalling accident and death rate and renewed blacklisting of workers, as was the case after the 1972 dispute; and supports the campaign by the Trades Union Congress, Unite and Ucatt, for the Home Secretary to release all secret papers related to the Shrewsbury case and to instigate a public inquiry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 18 MPs.