Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), on Tuesday, 30 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 18 members in total.

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SHREWSBURY PICKETS

That this House recalls the national trade union building workers strike of 1972 and the subsequent arrest a year later of 24 pickets, the sentences handed to six of them, and the long imprisonment served by Des Warren and Ricky Tomlinson; notes the legacy in the construction industry since the 1972 strike, including an unregulated industry, increasing casualisation through bogus self-employment, an appalling accident and death rate and renewed blacklisting of workers, as was the case after the 1972 dispute; and supports the campaign by the Trades Union Congress, Unite and Ucatt, for the Home Secretary to release all secret papers related to the Shrewsbury case and to instigate a public inquiry.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1226 

Session

2009-10

Other sponsors

John McDonnell

Ronnie Campbell

David Drew

David Anderson

Andrew Pelling

Subjects

Construction Industrial relations

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk