Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Happy 10th Birthday - National Minimum Wage

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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5 comments:

  1. Martin Hanley1 April 2009 at 07:04

    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

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  2. Anonymous1 April 2009 at 07:50

    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.

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  3. Mike Law1 April 2009 at 11:01

    John,

    Have you approached Brown, Fitzpatrick and Timms yet re signing the early day motion?

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  4. ian2 April 2009 at 07:47

    I believe Government ministers cant sign EDMs

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  5. Anonymous2 April 2009 at 21:29

    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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