EDM 2035 POSTAL DISPUTE 13.10.2009 - 164 SIGNATURES

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That this House welcomes the proposals put forward by the Communication Workers Union seeking to find a resolution to the current postal dispute, in particular their offer to explore the possibility of third party mediation; and calls on the Government to do all in its power to ensure that Royal Mail responds positively to the union's proposal.

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full article , well done Geraldine Smith London Post Strike As MPs Back Peace Move
12:27pm UK, Wednesday October 14, 2009

Dozens of MPs have backed a peace deal aimed at halting a wave of postal strikes.

Postal services set to be disrupted up and down the country



An early day motion (EDM) tabled in the Commons supporting a peace offer put forward by the Communication Workers Union has been signed by more than 60 MPs.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) will announce tomorrow a series of strike dates that are likely to cripple the postal service in the run-up to Christmas.

The earliest they could walk out would be next Thursday.

A 24-hour strike by postal staff is taking place in London today.

The EDM, tabled by Morecambe and Lunesdale MP Geraldine Smith, reads: "This House welcomes the proposals put forward by the Communication Workers Union seeking to find a resolution to the current postal dispute, in particular their offer to explore the possibility of third party mediation, and calls on the Government to do all in its power to ensure that Royal Mail responds positively to the union's proposal."

Business secretary Lord Mandelson warned that a national postal strike would be a "suicidal act".

Postal workers have voted by three to one in favour of industrial action.

Dave Ward, the union's deputy general secretary, said: "Postal workers do not want to take strike action.

"But neither are they prepared to put up with continuing attacks from a management which is failing.

"We have offered what we believe is a genuine alternative to reach a lasting agreement."

Royal Mail managing director Mark Higson said: "If the union are serious about resolving this dispute they should immediately lift the threat of strike action."

[Big Daz]

63 Labour MP's have signed so far and 1Conservative MP.


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[baldrick]

I'll email my MP and ask her if she will support the EDM, but I don't expect a positive reply as she is a Lib Dem.

[dudleylicious]

My MPis second on the list well done Michael

[kiltyscot]

I would email my mp but fat chance that he would do anything as he is the P.M and him and Mandelson are up each others Butts :mfo

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Conservative Party
Evans, Nigel
Winterton, Nicholas
Open: 2 Closed: 0
Democratic Unionist Party
Campbell, Gregory
McCrea, Dr William
Robinson, Iris
Open: 3 Closed: 0
INDEPENDENT
Davies, Dai
Open: 1 Closed: 0
Labour Party
Abbott, Diane
Ainger, Nick
Allen, Graham
Anderson, David
Banks, Gordon
Begg, Anne
Benton, Joe
Berry, Roger
Borrow, David S
Burgon, Colin
Campbell, Ronnie
Caton, Martin
Clark, Katy
Clarke, Tom
Clwyd, Ann
Cohen, Harry
Connarty, Michael
Corbyn, Jeremy
Cousins, Jim
Crausby, David
Cruddas, Jon
Cummings, John
Cunningham, Jim
Davidson, Ian
Dean, Janet
Devine, Jim
Dismore, Andrew
Dobbin, Jim
Dobson, Frank
Drew, David
Ellman, Louise
Etherington, Bill
Fisher, Mark
Flynn, Paul
Francis, Hywel
Grogan, John
Hamilton, David
Havard, Dai
Hepburn, Stephen
Heyes, David
Hopkins, Kelvin
Hoyle, Lindsay
Humble, Joan
Iddon, Brian
Jackson, Glenda
Jenkins, Brian
Jones, Lynne
Jones, Martyn
Kaufman, Gerald
Kilfoyle, Peter
Kumar, Ashok
Laxton, Bob
Mackinlay, Andrew
Marshall-Andrews, Robert
McCafferty, Chris
McDonnell, John
McGovern, Jim
McIsaac, Shona
Miller, Andrew
Moffat, Anne
Morgan, Julie
Naysmith, Doug
O'Hara, Edward
Olner, Bill
Owen, Albert
Pound, Stephen
Prentice, Gordon
Reed, Andy
Robertson, John
Rooney, Terry
Roy, Lindsay
Sarwar, Mohammad
Sheridan, Jim
Simpson, Alan
Singh, Marsha
Skinner, Dennis
Smith, Geraldine
Soulsby, Peter
Taylor, David
Thornberry, Emily
Truswell, Paul
Turner, Desmond
Vis, Rudi
Walley, Joan
Wareing, Robert N
Williams, Betty
Winnick, David
Wright, Anthony D
Open: 88 Closed: 0
Liberal Democrats
Hancock, Mike
Holmes, Paul
Open: 2 Closed: 0
Plaid Cymru
Price, Adam
Open: 1 Closed: 0

Social Democratic and Labour Party
Durkan, Mark
Open: 1 Closed: 0

[westlondonpostie]

Take note billy , now we know which Labour MP's to support!

[keo]

I'll will never vote Nu Liebour again........... But if my MP changes his stance?

How ever can any labour MP tell his electorate that he is behind smashing the right of any worker to withdraw their labour against the european workers right conventions is beyond anyones comprehension!

Mandelson stated earlier that he wasn't going to side with anyone in the postal dispute thou when questioned about the leaked document, it was clear that they were all for taking the management & RM boards side to defeat the union to open the way for a sale of the business to his free loading/ well paid pals. (He knew the presentation chapter and verse)

Hmm.. let's think, ahhh yes..... he goes on holiday( free) with the guys who own the music rights and comes back with this new piracy law

He's been sacked as a mp a couple of times for whatever
Then new Liebour appear and he's the answer to all Gordons ( Oops Tony's ) Problems!!!!!

For Feck's sake Mr Brown....... Grow a pair and If you're going to go down.... do it on your own beliefs .....

{Stepping off the soap box now...... but just remember, most folk remember the 70's and the s**t that happened then and how long it took Labour to recover }

I'll sign off now with a lump in my throat ............. but just remember, 40% or more didn't vote in the last election, but I can assure you that all ther postmen/women and their families will vote...... against the way that New Liebour has tried to bring the working man to his Knees.

How can we as a nation spend Billions bailing out the banks?
How can we as a nation spend Millions helping out any car plant to save a couple of hundred jobs?
(Yet allow Thousands of postal workers go to the dole!)
How can we as a nation spend Millions to try and stave off unemployment but in the last year force 60,000
( Yes 60 Thousand) Postal jobs to go so far.... 40, 000 from January onwards!
this is obviously the thin edge of the wedge regarding the Public Sector and isn't just the postal workers eh........

Thanks for the time to speak RMchat. No one else gives a s**t to what's happening.

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Changed:
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Added:
+ Prosser, Gwyn
+ Purchase, Ken
+ Short, Clare
+ Hoey, Kate
+ Howarth, George
+ Lazarowicz, Mark
+ Lepper, David
+ Levitt, Tom
+ Marsden, Gordon
+ Mitchell, Austin
+ Moffatt, Laura
+ Clapham, Michael
+ Cryer, Ann
+ Gapes, Mike
+ George, Andrew
+ Gerrard, Neil
+ Godsiff, Roger
+ Stunell, Andrew

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Added:
+ Dhanda, Parmjit
+ Illsley, Eric
+ Kemp, Fraser
+ Meacher, Michael
+ Meale, Alan
+ Murphy, Denis
+ Osborne, Sandra
+ Burden, Richard
+ Challen, Colin
+ Chaytor, David
+ Clelland, David
+ Field, Frank
+ Anderson, Janet
+ Stringer, Graham
+ Wood, Mike
+ Pugh, John
+ Lloyd, Tony
+ Dodds, Nigel
+ Doran, Frank
+ Riordan, Linda
+ Mason, John

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PARTY BREAKDOWN

Conservative Party
Open 2

Democratic Unionist Party
Open 4

INDEPENDENT 1

INDEPENDENT LABOUR
Open 1

Labour Party
Open 121

Liberal Democrats
Open 5

Plaid Cymru
Open 1

Scottish National Party
Open 1

Social Democratic and Labour Party
Open 1

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I see Barbara Follett our Mp isn't on it, she was going to visit the sorting office but bottled out when all the expenses row blew up. She was also going to look around the office last xmas too (as they do every year) but didn't come to that also.