LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS!

grimupnorth Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 05:14:11 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

 I think that's what you call a result....,  backbench Labour MPs have backed Andrew Miller's bid to end the two-tier workfirce and give equal rights to agency workers. Which will make it very, very difficult for the Government to listen to the hysterical voices of the CBI and try and weasel its way out of ensuring that the growing number of temporary and agency workers enjoy the same rights as permanent staff. We don't need a "Commission", we just need this long overdue legislation to be implemented ASAP. And here's the full list of MPs who backed it , which I notice includes Peter Hain......Alun Michael, Fiona MacTaggart and EVEN Sion Simon. Way beyond the "usual suspects", Gordon..... so you'd better start  listening. 
The message couldn't be clearer......here are the MPs who at last are giving us some hope things   may change  in the future......






Diane Abbott (Hackney North & Stoke Newington)
David Anderson (Blaydon)
Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen)
John Austin (Erith & Thamesmead)
John Battle (Leeds West)
Hugh Bayley (York, City of)
Anne Begg (Aberdeen South)
Sir Stuart Bell (Middlesbrough)
Joe Benton (Bootle)
Roger Berry (Kingswood)
Clive Betts (Sheffield Attercliffe)
David Borrow (South Ribble)
Russell Brown (Dumfries & Galloway)
Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield)
Colin Burgon (Elmet)
Martin Caton (Gower)
Colin Challen (Morley & Rothwell)
Ben Chapman (Wirral South)
David Chaytor (Bury North)
Katy Clark (Ayrshire North & Arran)
David Clelland (Tyne Bridge)
Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead)
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow & Falkirk East)
Frank Cook (Stockton North)
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North)
Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
David Crausby (Bolton North East)
Jonathan Cruddas (Dagenham)
Ann Cryer (Keighley)
John Cummings (Easington)
Jim Cunningham (Coventry South)
Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West)
Jim Devine (Livingston)
Jim Dobbin (Heywood & Middleton)
Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras)
Frank Doran (Aberdeen North)
Jim Dowd (Lewisham West)
David Drew (Stroud)
Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe & Nantwich)
Clive Efford (Eltham)
Natascha Engel (Derbyshire North East)
Frank Field (Birkenhead)
Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South)
Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Michael Jabez Foster (Hastings & Rye)
Dr Hywel Francis (Aberavon)
Mike Gapes (Ilford South)
John Grogan (Selby)
Peter Hain (Neath)
Mike Hall (Weaver Vale)
David Hamilton (Midlothian)
Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney)
Doug Henderson (Newcastle upon Tyne North)
David Heyes (Ashton under Lyne)
Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West)
Kate Hoey (Vauxhall)
Jimmy Hood (Lanark & Hamilton East)
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North)
George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East)
Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley)
Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood)
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East)
Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central)
Glenda Jackson (Hampstead & Highgate)
Sian James (Swansea East)
Martyn Jones (Clwyd South)
Fraser Kemp (Houghton & Washington East)
Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool Walton)
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & Cleveland East)
Dr Stephen Ladyman (Thanet South)
Bob Laxton (Derby North)
Tom Levitt (High Peak)
Martin Linton (Battersea)
Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central)
Andy Love (Edmonton)
Christine McCafferty (Calder Valley)
Ian McCartney (Makerfield)
John McDonnell (Hayes & Harlington)
Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes)
Ann McKechin (Glasgow North)
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough)
Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr)
John Mann (Bassetlaw)
Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South)
David Marshall (Glasgow East)
Michael Meacher (Oldham West & Royton)
Alun Michael (Cardiff South & Penarth)
Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port & Neston)
Anne Moffat (East Lothian)
Margaret Moran (Luton South)
Julie Morgan (Cardiff North)
George Mudie (Leeds East)
Chris Mullin (Sunderland South)
Denis Murphy (Wansbeck)
Dr Doug Naysmith (Bristol North West)
Bill Olner (Nuneaton)
Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock)
Albert Owen (Ynys Mon)
Greg Pope (Hyndburn)
Stephen Pound (Ealing North)
Gordon Prentice (Pendle)
Gwyn Prosser (Dover)
Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East)
Linda Riordan (Halifax)
John Robertson (Glasgow North West)
Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West)
Terry Rooney (Bradford North)
Virendra Sharma (Ealing Southall)
Jimmy Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North)
Sion Simon (Birmingham Erdington)
Marsha Singh (Bradford West)
Dennis Skinner (Bolsover)
Andrew Smith (Oxford East)
John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan)
Helen Southworth (Warrington South)
John Spellar (Warley)
Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West)
Ian Stewart (Eccles), Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East)
Graham Stringer (Manchester Blackley)
Dari Taylor (Stockton South)
David Taylor (Leicestershire North West)
Emily Thornberry (Islington South & Finsbury)
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth)
Dr Desmond Turner (Brighton Kemptown)
Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North)
Lynda Waltho (Stourbridge)
Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton Test)
Alan Williams (Swansea West)
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield)
David Winnick (Walsall North)
Mike Wood (Batley & Spen)
Anthony Wright (Great Yarmouth

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LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! | 14 comments (14 topical)

Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#1)

by jkitleft on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 05:40:07 PM GMT

What disgusts me is that this even has to be debated in the first place, and this comes from someone who doesn't consider themselves to have any particular ideology they adhere to. 


The fact that the government even has to find a reason to object to the bill. I suspect there is a flawed rationality, believing that it is better politically to support buisness' flawed arguments, than to support a MANIFESTO PLEDGE. This isn't a 'it's a treaty, not a constitution' charade they can hide behind.


I can think of a reson that it is better politically to support the bill. 1.4 million potential votes. But that's not why we should care. Agency workers are generally working in the worst-paid jobs anyway, so it's a disgrace that buisness thinks they can subordinate them any further.


My personal experience of this, is knowing agency workers who work wih special needs children, who child governmental agencies rely on, in order to keep that badly underfunded industry working. The CBI estimates that 250,000 jobs could be lost. While the same industry that predicted the death of 2 million jobs with the introduction of a minimum wage, only for the precise opposite to happen, isn't there an argument to suggest that there would be an incentive for more people, who can't find long-term employment, to turn to agencies instead?


Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#2)

by swatantra on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 06:33:53 PM GMT

Its the usual suspects plus Frank Field, Kate Hoey, Peter Hain and Emily Thornberry and others. Quite a wide spead section of the Party. So the Bill should have an extremely good chance of hitting the Statute Books. But, I suspect it will be heavily ammended on its progress and will bear little resemblance to the original. Which is a great shame.


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#4)

by bigpapi on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 08:22:37 PM GMT

I wouldn't go as far as to say "the usual suspects" - included in the list of "Ayes" was the backbencher who spoke for 2 hours last year helping to talk the Bill out, and missing was Paul Farrelly who sponsored this Bill last year.

(As an anorak question, does the list include the two Tellers for the "Ayes", as if not, there are two more to add)?


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#5)

by grimupnorth on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 10:58:48 PM GMT

Two tellers are extra......


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#6)

by bigpapi on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 11:47:42 PM GMT

The Tellers - who I said would be extra - were Andrew Dismore (Hendon) and John Heppell (Nottingham East).


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#7)

by Andrea on Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 12:11:12 AM GMT

yes, the 2 tellers are usually counted as extra.

FWIW, the 11 not Labour MPs supporting it were: John Bercow (Con), Vince Cable (LD), Dai Davies (Ind), George Galloway (whatever what is left of his party is called now), Mark Durkan (SDLP), Simon Hughes (LD), Adam Price (Plaid) Clare Short (Hung Parliament Party), John Thurso (LD), Mike Weir (SNP), Richard Younger-Ross (LD).


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#8)

by swatantra on Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 10:43:27 AM GMT

Interesting that Clare's Party is 'The Hung Parliament' Party;  and Georges Party is... well just 'George's Party'.


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#9)

by bigpapi on Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 02:27:28 PM GMT

I'm surprised at the 11 who voted against the Bill: Mike Weir intervened early on Andrew Mitchell saying the SNP were supporting him (and where they go Plaid Cymru normally follow).  Also Simon Hughes said the LibDems would abstain on Second Reading, but oppose if it came to Third Reading.


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#10)

by bigpapi on Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 02:29:05 PM GMT

Sorry - meant Andrew Miller, not Mitchell!


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#11)

by Andrea on Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 04:16:09 PM GMT

The 11 I listed were the not Labour MPs supporting it (136+11=147 supporting second reading overall).


The 11 voting against were:
James Brokenshire, Chris Chope, Philip Davies, Nigel Evans, Mark Francois, Philip Hollobone, Charles Hendy, Julie Kirkbride, Jacqui Lait, Richard Ottaway, Andrew Robathan (+ James Duddrige and Jeremy Wright as tellers for the no).

I think they are all Tories.


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#13)

by bigpapi on Sun Feb 24, 2008 at 02:20:21 PM GMT

Sorry Andrea, I misread your original post.  Surprised the three LibDems voted for Second Reading after Hughes indicated early in the debate that they would vote for closure but abstain on Second Reading.  He also said that they would oppose on Third Reading.


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Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#3)

by NorthernMonkey on Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 06:37:00 PM GMT

The government should just admit that it got this one wrong and back Miller's amendment.


Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#12)

by sgthowie on Sat Feb 23, 2008 at 07:18:18 PM GMT

Even the Morning Star was praising the MP's today!!


Re: LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! (#14)

by Limony on Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 02:41:02 AM GMT

No need to shout.


LABOUR MPS STAND UP FOR AGENCY WORKERS! | 14 comments (14 topical)