Wallasey Labour Party

Save the Minimum Wage

13th May 2009

It is hard to believe it's been ten years since Labour introduced the national minimum wage here in the UK and it's easy to forget just how groundbreaking its introduction was. Today, the national minimum wage is a fundamental feature of the UK's employment landscape and its one that this government has worked hard to protect which makes it even more shocking that the Tory Party are trying to take it away.

Twelve years after first describing the minimum wage as a 'burden on business' David Cameron has shown that he still doesn't believe in the minimum wage that has benefited millions of low paid workers. On Friday Parliament will debate a Tory bill that would fatally undermine the minimum wage by introducing an opt-out.

To help save the minimum wage and to make sure this Bill is defeated you can sign the petition  below.

You only have to look back at the salary of many employees before the minimum wage was introduced to measure its success. For the first time, employees were provided a national minimum floor, guaranteeing an acceptable income for every household. And ten years on, 950,000 to 1 million workers still stand to benefit from the uprating of the minimum wage in October.

If you agree with increasing the minimum wage during a recession and not removing it then show your support and sign the petition below.