Trade Union Rights At Reed Elsevier

EDM number 2300 in 1992-93, proposed by Andrew Smith on 12/07/1993.

That this House notes with concern the discriminatory practice of the merged Anglo-Dutch Reed Elsevier publishing company against its United Kingdom employees; notes specifically that the salaries and conditions of the Dutch employees are agreed through annual negotiations with the appropriate unions, while the salaries and conditions of the United Kingdom employees are unilaterally imposed even when union membership is 70 per cent. or higher; notes that the salaries, terms and conditions of Reed Elsevier United Kingdom staff are inferior to their Dutch colleagues; is concerned that the United Kingdom should not become the cheap labour force of Europe; and therefore condemns this discrimination against the United Kingdom workforce and calls on the Reed Elsevier management to recognise the same rights for the United Kingdom workers as those enjoyed by the Dutch workforce and specifically to recognise the rights of all its workers to be represented individually and collectively by a trade union if they so choose.

This motion has been signed by a total of 122 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Andrew Smith	12/07/1993	Oxford East		Proposed
Joyce Quin	12/07/1993	Gateshead East		Signed
Tony Lloyd	12/07/1993	Stretford		Signed
Chris Mullin	12/07/1993	Sunderland South		Signed
Martin O'Neill	12/07/1993	Clackmannan		Signed
Anne Campbell	12/07/1993	Cambridge		Signed
Terry Davis	13/07/1993	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Ian Davidson	13/07/1993	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	13/07/1993	Leigh		Signed
John Cummings	13/07/1993	Easington		Signed
Tom Cox	13/07/1993	Tooting		Signed
Jim Dowd	13/07/1993	Lewisham West		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	13/07/1993	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Derek Enright	13/07/1993	Hemsworth		Signed
John Evans	13/07/1993	St Helens North		Signed
Norman Godman	13/07/1993	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Harry Barnes	13/07/1993	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	13/07/1993	Durham, City of		Signed
Mike Watson	13/07/1993	Glasgow Central		Signed
Jean Corston	13/07/1993	Bristol East		Signed
Robin Corbett	13/07/1993	Birmingham, Erdington		Signed
Bridget Prentice	13/07/1993	Lewisham East		Signed
Dennis Skinner	13/07/1993	Bolsover		Signed
Peter Hardy	13/07/1993	Wentworth		Signed
Keith Hill	13/07/1993	Streatham		Signed
Roy Hughes	13/07/1993	Newport East		Signed
John Hutton	13/07/1993	Barrow & Furness		Signed
Glenda Jackson	13/07/1993	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Lynne Jones	13/07/1993	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Terry Lewis	13/07/1993	Worsley		Signed
Ken Livingstone	13/07/1993	Brent East		Signed
Bill Michie	13/07/1993	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Rhodri Morgan	13/07/1993	Cardiff West		Signed
Keith Bradley	13/07/1993	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Eric Clarke	14/07/1993	Midlothian		Signed
Michael Connarty	14/07/1993	Falkirk East		Signed
Mike Hall	14/07/1993	Warrington South		Signed
Janet Anderson	14/07/1993	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Jack Thompson	14/07/1993	Wansbeck		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	14/07/1993	Blyth Valley		Signed
Roland Boyes	14/07/1993	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Alan Meale	14/07/1993	Mansfield		Signed
Eddie Loyden	14/07/1993	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Barry Jones	14/07/1993	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Helen Jackson	14/07/1993	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
John Heppell	14/07/1993	Nottingham East		Signed
Colin Pickthall	14/07/1993	West Lancashire		Signed
John Gunnell	15/07/1993	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Win Griffiths	15/07/1993	Bridgend		Signed
Michael Clapham	15/07/1993	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	15/07/1993	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Jimmy Hood	15/07/1993	Clydesdale		Signed
Mike O'Brien	19/07/1993	North Warwickshire		Signed
Frank Cook	19/07/1993	Stockton North		Signed
Llin Golding	19/07/1993	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Paul Flynn	20/07/1993	Newport West		Signed
Kevin Barron	20/07/1993	Rother Valley		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	20/07/1993	St Helens South		Signed
Joan Walley	20/07/1993	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
David Winnick	20/07/1993	Walsall North		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	20/07/1993	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Bryan Davies	20/07/1993	Oldham Central and Royton		Signed
Bill Olner	20/07/1993	Nuneaton		Signed
Jane Kennedy	20/07/1993	Liverpool Broadgreen		Signed
Kim Howells	20/07/1993	Pontypridd		Signed
Joan Ruddock	20/07/1993	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Martin Redmond	20/07/1993	Don Valley		Signed
Peter Pike	20/07/1993	Burnley		Signed
Harry Cohen	21/07/1993	Leyton		Signed
John Denham	21/07/1993	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
Mike Gapes	21/07/1993	Ilford South		Signed
Tommy Graham	21/07/1993	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Clive Betts	21/07/1993	Sheffield, Attercliffe		Signed
Dennis Turner	21/07/1993	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
David Clelland	21/07/1993	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Calum MacDonald	21/07/1993	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
Ron Leighton	21/07/1993	Newham North East		Signed
Terry Patchett	21/07/1993	Barnsley East		Signed
Greg Pope	21/07/1993	Hyndburn		Signed
Barbara Roche	21/07/1993	Hornsey & Wood Green		Signed
Doug Hoyle	21/07/1993	Warrington North		Signed
Robert Hughes	21/07/1993	Aberdeen North		Signed
Martyn Jones	21/07/1993	Clwyd South West		Signed
Estelle Morris	22/07/1993	Birmingham, Yardley		Signed
Peter Hain	22/07/1993	Neath		Signed
Joe Ashton	22/07/1993	Bassetlaw		Signed
Tony Benn	22/07/1993	Chesterfield		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	22/07/1993	Carmarthen		Signed
Audrey Wise	22/07/1993	Preston		Signed
Alf Morris	22/07/1993	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Austin Mitchell	22/07/1993	Great Grimsby		Signed
Terry Rooney	22/07/1993	Bradford North		Signed
Alan Simpson	22/07/1993	Nottingham South		Signed
John Spellar	22/07/1993	Warley West		Signed
Eric Illsley	22/07/1993	Barnsley Central		Signed
Robert Litherland	22/07/1993	Manchester Central		Signed
John McAllion	22/07/1993	Dundee East		Signed
Paul Boateng	23/07/1993	Brent South		Signed
Joe Benton	23/07/1993	Bootle		Signed
John Battle	23/07/1993	Leeds West		Signed
Sam Galbraith	23/07/1993	Strathkelvin & Bearsden		Signed
Derek Fatchett	23/07/1993	Leeds Central		Signed
Eric Martlew	23/07/1993	Carlisle		Signed
David Marshall	23/07/1993	Glasgow, Shettleston		Signed
Peter Mandelson	23/07/1993	Hartlepool		Signed
Alice Mahon	23/07/1993	Halifax		Signed
George Howarth	23/07/1993	Knowsley North		Signed
David Hinchliffe	23/07/1993	Wakefield		Signed
Robert Parry	23/07/1993	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Hugh Bayley	26/07/1993	York, City of		Signed
Bruce Grocott	26/07/1993	Wrekin, The		Signed
Mildred Gordon	26/07/1993	Bow and Poplar		Signed
John Fraser	26/07/1993	Norwood		Signed
Neil Kinnock	27/07/1993	Islwyn		Signed
Andrew Miller	27/07/1993	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
Bill Etherington	27/07/1993	Sunderland North		Signed
Malcolm Wicks	18/10/1993	Croydon North West		Signed
Roger Godsiff	18/10/1993	Birmingham Small Heath		Signed
Rachel Squire	18/10/1993	Dunfermline West		Signed
Jim Cunningham	25/10/1993	Coventry South East		Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	02/11/1993	Thurrock		Signed
Nigel Jones	04/11/1993	Cheltenham		Signed

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