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Tory bill to kill minimum wage goes ahead

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Tory MPs are continuing to promote a Bill to abolish the minimum wage, which is due to be debated tomorrow.Usdaw is calling on its members to lobby the MPs who are supporting the Employment Opportunities Bill to withdraw their support and for David Cameron to condemn it.It follows a concerted campaign by the pressure group Wage Concern, led by John Prescott MP and supported by Usdaw and Unison. This grassroots campaign saw more than 12,000 people sign a petition or join the Facebook group; the online lobbying of more than 300 MPs and 139 MPs back an Early Day Motion calling on David Cameron to renounce the bill.All this pressure led to the bill being pulled from its original slot on May 15th after Gordon Brown told MPs during Prime Ministers’ Question Time to voteagainst it.Usdaw General Secretary and Low Pay Commission member John Hannett said:”I can’t believe that Christopher Chope is still promoting this legislation when he didn’t have the bottle to debate its consequences with me on the radio. Wewill continue to defend the national minimum wage from all those who seek to destroy it.”This Bill will leave Britain’s most vulnerable workers at the mercy of rogue employers who will pressurise them into opting out of the minimum wage. Itoffers no choice to low paid workers. Tory MPs are insulting our intelligence by suggesting that there is a human right to pay lower than the legal minimum.”This Bill will remove the floor of minimum wage protection and that means everyone’s wages will spiral downwards.”John Prescott added:”I am delighted that Tory Nigel Evans has seen sense in the face of union pressure and backed down on the bill.  It is a shame that his leader has refused our call to publicly renounce this bill too.”The national minimum wage was one of this Labour Government’s greatest achievements.  If this Tory bill were passed it would take us back to the badold days of poverty pay and a race to the bottom of the pay scale by employers.”

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