Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alan Meale (Labour), on Tuesday, 14 January 1997, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 194 members in total.

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GCHQ - RESTORATION OF TRADE UNION RIGHTS

That this House applauds the decision by Ted Whybrew, the Certification Officer for Trade Unions and Employers Associations, not to grant a certificate of independence to the Government Communications Staff Federation; welcomes the vindication of the views of those trade unions and workers who for so long have opposed the ban on trade unions at GCHQ; notes and supports those counts on which the GCSF's application foundered, namely that the officers of the GCSF are subject to disciplinary and other decisions by its management, are not free to affiliate, merge with or recruit from elsewhere and contest their conditions of service without risking expulsion, have limited access to industrial tribunals with industrial action being effectively banned and finally that the GCSF's continuation as a representative functioning body is 80 per cent. reliant upon funding by management; and calls on the Government finally to accept that the ban is in contravention of ILO Convention 87, contrary to natural justice and, as such, fundamentally wrong, to admit their error and make immediate amends by restoring in full Trade Union rights to GCHQ employees and to reinstate those workers previously unjustly dismissed from their employment.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

387 

Session

1996-97

Other sponsors

Jeremy Bray

Subjects

GCHQ Trade unions

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk