Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 November 1964.
Mr James Dempsey
, Coatbridge and Airdrie
12:00,
10 November 1964
Is my right hon. Friend aware that this area is facing large-scale redundancy since the firm concerned is outside the ring of telephone manufacturers and is guaranteed only a one year's contract, with the workers having only a one year's job, against five years for ring manufacturers? Is it not time to dispense with this practice and for areas such as this to receive more favourable treatment in this respect, especially as there is already three times the national average of unemployment in the locality?