Check out this website which is supported by UNISON, the TUC and NGO’s. On the 1st April the National Minimum Wage will be 10 years old.You can lobby the Low Pay unit and your local MP about this year's increase.
Well done the Labour Party and Government for this is one of your finest achievements.
Putting pounds into the purses and pockets of millions of ordinary low paid working people.
This is really what we should all be about.
Now turn this into a national living wage?
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Well said, John!
The campaign is backing an Early Day Motion (no.1163) which calls for a celebration of the national minimum wage but also for improvements in the level of it, an end to age discrimination in the bandings, its extension to cover apprentices, and better awareness and enforcement.
To date it has been signed by the MPs listed below. If your MP hasn't signed up yet, please lobby them about doing so.
You can do this through the www.minimumwage.org.uk website.
EDM 1163 signatories
Blunkett, David
Lloyd, Tony
Anderson, David
Cruddas, Jon
Hoyle, Lindsay
George, Andrew
Durkan, Mark
Rooney, Terry
Hepburn, Stephen
Holmes, Paul
Iddon, Brian
Jones, Lynne
McDonnell, John
Corbyn, Jeremy
Cummings, John
Dismore, Andrew
Dobbin, Jim
Drew, David
Gibson, Ian
Hancock, Mike
Stringer, Graham
Taylor, David
Vis, Rudi
Wareing, Robert N
Willis, Phil
Prentice, Gordon
Harvey, Nick
Jackson, Glenda
Keetch, Paul
McCafferty, Chris
Breed, Colin
Dean, Janet
Fisher, Mark
Abbott, Diane
Tipping, Paddy
Clark, Katy
Roy, Lindsay
Crausby, David
Ainger, Nick
Walley, Joan
Creagh, Mary
Humble, Joan
Jenkins, Brian
Kumar, Ashok
Love, Andrew
O'Hara, Edward
Cryer, Ann
Gapes, Mike
Gerrard, Neil
Williams, Betty
Hemming, John
Morgan, Julie
Singh, Marsha
McGuire, Anne
Miller, Andrew
Olner, Bill
Burden, Richard
Ellman, Louise
Grogan, John
Atkins, Charlotte
Truswell, Paul
Leech, John
Amazing how the trot left aren't even mentioning this on their own blogs! Are they so bitter they can't see the Labour Government did something good? Yes it can be improved, but we'd never have got it under the Tories. What a bunch of April Fools the extreme left are.
John,
Have you approached Brown, Fitzpatrick and Timms yet re signing the early day motion?
I believe Government ministers cant sign EDMs
Its great the National minimu wage -particularly for those of us who have recently been kicked out of work. Nice one Gordon.
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