Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Anderson (Labour), on Wednesday, 24 May 2006, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 47 members in total.

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TUC AND MOBILE PHONES FOR IRAQI TRADE UNIONS

That this House notes that unions representing workers in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan face incredible challenges in defending working people and rebuilding democracy and that one of their requests for solidarity to be shown by British trade unionists is in the provision of mobile phones, which are crucial for any union organiser but especially in Iraq, where travel can be dangerous and landlines are not sufficiently reliable or widespread; further notes that mobile phone handsets are expensive to buy in Iraq and that buying new ones could eat up scarce union resources, but that the Iraqi trade union movement has identified a way of easily converting old European mobile phones for use in Iraq; and congratulates the TUC on launching an appeal for unions, their members and concerned members of the public to pass on via the TUC their used mobile phones and chargers to the Iraqi trade union movement as an act of solidarity.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2248 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Alan Meale

Tony Lloyd

Greg Pope

Andrew Dismore

David Drew

Subjects

Iraq Mobile phones Trade unions

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk