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<p style='background:white'><strong><b><font size=5 color="#73110e" face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>Politics has
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</span></font><font size=2 color="#73110e" face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>joint fringe meeting
at the 2009 TUC Congress with the <a
href="http://www.unitedcampaign.org.uk/index.html">United Campaign</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='background:white'><font size=2 color="#73110e" face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>Monday 14th
September 5:30PM or conference end <strong><b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Meeting Room 11B, BT Convention Centre, <st1:place
w:st="on">Liverpool</st1:place> (flyer attached)</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h2 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Speakers </span></font></i></b><font size=3
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Verdana;color:#CA232A'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h2>
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class=caps><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'>IER </span></font></span><font
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Matt Wrack</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
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<h2 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Chaired by: <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
<h2 style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6;
background:white'><![if !supportLists]><b><i><font size=2 color=maroon
face=Symbol><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
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</span></font></span></span></font></i></b><![endif]><font size=2 color=maroon><span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Carolyn Jones <span class=caps>IER</span></span></font><font
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<h2 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Refreshments Provided. Fringe Sponsored by: <span
class=caps>RMT </span>& Thompsons Solicitors<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
<h2 style='background:white'><b><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt'>About the fringe<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
<p style='background:white'><font size=2 color="#73110e" face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>Workers are
being asked to pay for an economic crisis they didn’t create. Activists
are being blacklisted from jobs. Trade union representatives are being
victimised at work. Many workers are facing attacks on their jobs, their
pensions and their living standards.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='background:white'><font size=2 color="#73110e" face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>How should
workers and unions respond? Has the time passed for mild, modest and moderate
requests for reform of the anti-trade union laws? If politicians will not
deliver change, how can workers secure fairness at work?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='background:white'><font size=2 color="#73110e" face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>Speakers at
the fringe will consider the political, legal and industrial options available
to those wanting to protect trade union freedoms, promote workplace fairness
and project a new world order on a discredited and increasingly failing economic
system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='background:white'><font size=2 color="#73110e" face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>Come to the
fringe. Join in the debate. Let your voice be heard.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><font size=2 color="#73110e" face=Arial><span
lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>If you would
like to assist us in our work – <a
href="http://www.ier.org.uk/system/files/Subs+Form+08.pdf">join us</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color="#73110e"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>Carolyn
Jones </span></font><font face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color="#73110e"
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#73110E'>Director<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>
Checked by AVG.<BR>
Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.1/1734 - Release Date: 20/10/2008 07:25<BR>
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