Denunciation Of Ilo Conventions

EDM number 1555 in 1993-94, proposed by Martyn Jones on 19/07/1994.

That this House deplores the Government's decision to denounce conventions 99 and 101 of the International Labour Organisation, which entail the existence of the agricultural wages boards to set minimum wages and paid holidays for agricultural workers, as announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in her reply of 14th July to the honourable Member for Ealing North, Official Report, column 715; takes note of the fact that these conventions have been signed by countries right across the globe, from Belize to Belgium to Brazil; believes it to be a terrible indictment of the United Kingdom's low-wage, high-exploitation economy that the Government refuse to meet the same standards as countries like Colombia, Malawi and Papua New Guinea; is reminded that in response to the Government's recent consultation on the future of the agriculture wages boards there were 3,628 submissions received, of which just 15 were in favour of abolishing the boards; is further reminded that farmers' unions and rural communities alike oppose any weakening of the powers the Agriculture Wages Board; condemns the Government's insistence that minimum wages cause unemployment, when Government-funded research concluded that the minimum wages have not reduced agricultural employment; recognises that agricultural workers are now among the most highly skilled workers in the land, yet their hourly wages are 30 per cent. below the industrial average; and calls upon the Government to reconsider its decision to denounce International Labour Organisation conventions 99 and 101, and to recognise the need to retain the agricultural wages boards in their current form. (Relevant registered interest declared)

This motion has been signed by a total of 98 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Martyn Jones	19/07/1994	Clwyd South West		Proposed
Kenneth Eastham	19/07/1994	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Brian H Donohoe	19/07/1994	Cunninghame South		Signed
Jim Cousins	19/07/1994	Newcastle upon Tyne Central		Signed
Jean Corston	19/07/1994	Bristol East		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	19/07/1994	Islington North		Signed
Michael Connarty	19/07/1994	Falkirk East		Signed
Ann Clwyd	19/07/1994	Cynon Valley		Signed
David Clelland	19/07/1994	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	19/07/1994	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	19/07/1994	Workington		Signed
James Callaghan	19/07/1994	Heywood & Middleton		Signed
Stephen Byers	19/07/1994	Wallsend		Signed
Keith Bradley	19/07/1994	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Derek Fatchett	19/07/1994	Leeds Central		Signed
Paul Flynn	19/07/1994	Newport West		Signed
David Winnick	19/07/1994	Walsall North		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	19/07/1994	Carmarthen		Signed
Dennis Turner	19/07/1994	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Jack Thompson	19/07/1994	Wansbeck		Signed
John Battle	19/07/1994	Leeds West		Signed
John Gunnell	19/07/1994	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Bruce Grocott	19/07/1994	Wrekin, The		Signed
Win Griffiths	19/07/1994	Bridgend		Signed
Norman Godman	19/07/1994	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Neil Gerrard	19/07/1994	Walthamstow		Signed
Mike Gapes	19/07/1994	Ilford South		Signed
Maria Fyfe	19/07/1994	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
George Foulkes	19/07/1994	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed
Bill O'Brien	19/07/1994	Normanton		Signed
Rhodri Morgan	19/07/1994	Cardiff West		Signed
Kate Hoey	19/07/1994	Vauxhall		Signed
Keith Hill	19/07/1994	Streatham		Signed
Rachel Squire	19/07/1994	Dunfermline West		Signed
Llew Smith	19/07/1994	Blaenau Gwent		Signed
Alan Simpson	19/07/1994	Nottingham South		Signed
Barbara Roche	19/07/1994	Hornsey & Wood Green		Signed
Giles Radice	19/07/1994	North Durham		Signed
Joyce Quin	19/07/1994	Gateshead East		Signed
Dawn Primarolo	19/07/1994	Bristol South		Signed
Bridget Prentice	19/07/1994	Lewisham East		Signed
Greg Pope	19/07/1994	Hyndburn		Signed
Peter Pike	19/07/1994	Burnley		Signed
David Hanson	19/07/1994	Delyn		Signed
Doug Hoyle	19/07/1994	Warrington North		Signed
John Hutton	19/07/1994	Barrow & Furness		Signed
Andrew Miller	19/07/1994	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
John McFall	19/07/1994	Dumbarton		Signed
John Maxton	19/07/1994	Glasgow, Cathcart		Signed
Alice Mahon	19/07/1994	Halifax		Signed
Helen Liddell	19/07/1994	Monklands East		Signed
Peter Kilfoyle	19/07/1994	Liverpool, Walton		Signed
Piara S Khabra	19/07/1994	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Alan Keen	19/07/1994	Feltham & Heston		Signed
Eric Illsley	19/07/1994	Barnsley Central		Signed
Adam Ingram	19/07/1994	East Kilbride		Signed
Helen Jackson	19/07/1994	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Barry Jones	19/07/1994	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	19/07/1994	Cardiff Central		Signed
John Denham	20/07/1994	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
John Evans	20/07/1994	St Helens North		Signed
Andrew Faulds	20/07/1994	Warley East		Signed
Mike Hall	20/07/1994	Warrington South		Signed
Tony Banks	20/07/1994	Newham North West		Signed
Harry Barnes	20/07/1994	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Hugh Bayley	20/07/1994	York, City of		Signed
Paddy Tipping	20/07/1994	Sherwood		Signed
Mike Watson	20/07/1994	Glasgow Central		Signed
Audrey Wise	20/07/1994	Preston		Signed
John Cummings	20/07/1994	Easington		Signed
Michael Clapham	20/07/1994	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Colin Pickthall	20/07/1994	West Lancashire		Signed
Joan Ruddock	20/07/1994	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Dennis Skinner	20/07/1994	Bolsover		Signed
Peter Hardy	20/07/1994	Wentworth		Signed
Glenda Jackson	20/07/1994	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Eddie Loyden	20/07/1994	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Bill Michie	20/07/1994	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Edward O'Hara	20/07/1994	Knowsley South		Signed
Richard Burden	20/07/1994	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	20/07/1994	Blyth Valley		Signed
Lynne Jones	21/07/1994	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Ken Livingstone	21/07/1994	Brent East		Signed
Bill Etherington	21/07/1994	Sunderland North		Signed
Terry Davis	17/10/1994	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Roy Hughes	17/10/1994	Newport East		Signed
Robert Hughes	18/10/1994	Aberdeen North		Signed
Ian Davidson	18/10/1994	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Jim Dowd	18/10/1994	Lewisham West		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	18/10/1994	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Janet Anderson	19/10/1994	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Jim Cunningham	19/10/1994	Coventry South East		Signed
Jamie Cann	19/10/1994	Ipswich		Signed
Elliot Morley	19/10/1994	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Robert Parry	20/10/1994	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Denis MacShane	20/10/1994	Rotherham		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	20/10/1994	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Robert Wareing	26/10/1994	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed

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