Pleural plaques follow Brown to conference

Unions will again call on the Government to restore compensation for pleural plaques sufferers at the Labour Party Conference next week.

by Tribune Web Editor
Thursday, September 24th, 2009

by René Lavanchy

Unions will again call on the Government to restore compensation for pleural plaques sufferers at the Labour Party Conference next week.

Gordon Brown was presented with a campaign video produced for the Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation by Jim Kennedy, political officer of construction union UCATT, this week.

Unions are demanding a new law to overturn the Law Lords’ 2007 decision that sufferers of the asbestos-related disease do not need compensation.

Mr Brown promised the TUC Congress that ministers would examine the question when Parliament returns. But UCATT warned earlier this year that they were expecting “betrayal” on the issue

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  • Mike Fisher

    It seems to me that people think Im all right Jack till you get the disease.?
    I bet the Judge who made that judgement has had a good life!.

  • Mike Fisher

    It seems to me that people think Im all right Jack till you get the disease.?
    I bet the Judge who made that judgement has had a good life!.

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