I wonder if you could help me take on the Tory Bill to scrap the minimum wage (I promise it'll only take five minutes of your time.)
Our Wage Concern campaign may have been successful in getting the Employment Opportunities Bill pulled by the sponsoring Tory MPs last month but it's still down on the order paper for this Friday, June 12th in the House of Commons.
That means the proposed legislation to effectively abolish the minimum wage is still alive.
So we still need your help to raise awareness of this retrogressive and unfair bill.
Here's what you can do:
Here's a draft email you can use to send to the 11 Tory MPs sponsoring the Bill:
"I am very concerned to hear about the Private Members Bill, Employment Opportunities, down for its second reading on Friday 10th June, that will seek to abolish the mandatory national minimum wage.
"You are listed as one of the Bill's sponsors.
"The national minimum wage has benefited more than a million people since it was introduced and your Bill would effectively undermine it by allowing unscrupulous bosses to pay what they like.
"Please could you let me know as a matter of urgency whether you still plan to support this Bill and if so, why you back it. I am respectfully asking you to withdraw your backing.
"Could you also let me know whether you believe it is right for paid MPs to call for the minimum wage to be effectively abolished whilst holding second jobs themselves as many of the Bill's sponsors do."
Send the email
You can send it to the following Tory MPs sponsoring the Bill
Christopher Chope (Christchurch) chopec@parliament.uk
Peter Bone (Wellingborough, Northants) bonep@parliament.uk
Philip Davies (Shipley, West Yorkshire) daviesp@parliament.uk
Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley, Wales) evansn@parliament.uk
Greg Knight (Yorkshire East) knightg@.parliament.uk
Edward Leigh (Gainsborough, Lincolnshire) leighe@parliament.uk
Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater, Somerset) liddeli@parliament.uk
Brian Binley (Northampton South, Northants) binleyb@parliament.uk
William Cash (Stone, Staffs) cashw@parliament.uk
Robert Syms (Poole, Dorset) symsr@parliament.uk
David Wilshire (Spelthorne, Surrey) wilshired@parliament.uk
Get your friends to do it too
Forward on this post to your friends asking them to do the same.
You can find out more about the Bill and the MPs sponsoring it at www.wageconcern.com
Let's see if we can get the MPs to withdraw their supp
