Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for nine years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The views expressed here are mine in a personal capacity, not those of the Labour Party, Sandwell MBC, Aston Villa or Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Get it! Mine... just mine!
The announcement by Gordon Brown that the Government are to extend employment rights to agency workers is very much to be welcomed.
Of course, I very much doubt it will be welcomed by the CBI, the Institute of Directors, nor their stooges in the Conservative Party, and they will all hop up and down twittering that giving people employment rights is a 'burden on business' and that it will create millions of unemployed.
We've been here before, of course. Charles Hendry (Who -he? - Well, he is the Shadow Minister for Industry apparently) has described employment rights for temporary and agency workers as "fundamental hostile to wealth creation".
Of course it will not happen, we all know the mighty Gordon Brown promises one thing and does another, incase you do not know Gordon that is called a LIAR and a pathetic liar at that. Helping the poor, LIAR and dont talk abot the 120 pounds as it still hurt people who do not get tax credits, the EEC referendum LIAR, on and on and on.
DO YOU EVER TELL THE TRUTH, you should resign while you are able to and before you are thrown out, as you should be. You are an embarressment to the English people, the English government and the Labour party.
These things tend to work out as a conspiracy of the employed against the unemployed. The more regulations you impose and costs you create on employers the harder creating new jobs becomes, but in the short term those in employment do better at the expense of those out of work.
Given that 90% of the jobs created (of the 3 million Brown bangs on about every PMQ) went to immigrants from Eastern Europe, and that the economically inactive (unemployed + 'too sick to work' is about the same as the worse unemployment times of Mrs T this isn't as generous as it might look) things aren't as good as advertised, even now.
Destroying the system that creates the wealth and employment - same old socialists, same old Labour.
Still there are plenty of people in China and India who will be happy with the jobs we no longer seem to want.
Balls some people are seriously disabled while working under the old Tory laws and regulation, safety was not something anyone bothered with. I will vote every-time for the rights to a decent wage, decent working conditions and the chance to enjoy working without having to look over your shoulder at some bloke from an agency.
I'll back this one 100% but hope and I really hope this is not more spin
Robert - which laws and regulations would these be ? And which ones that Labour introduced are so great ?
Having worked in Chemical plants and Oil rigs during the Conservative year I thought safety was a top priority. Unions and management worked together on that
The danger is the unexpected consequences - a system like in France were employment legislation leaves large numbers of young people unemployed - whilst richly rewarding to privileged (mostly unionised and often state sector people).
May 14, 2008 1:57 PM | permalink
Steady Bob, this is one of them "initiatives" that I think we agreed was not what was required!
Joking aside it is about time this issue got sorted out - eminently sensible private members bills have been talked out too often.