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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/931"><img border=0 width=100 height=132 src="cid:image002.png@01CC6F01.3D30A3B0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/tuc%20fringe%202011.img_assist_custom.png" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"></a><![endif]><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Monday 12 September 2011<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p><i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Joint event with Unite the Union and the United Campaign</span></i><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><br><b>5.30pm, Shaftesbury Avenue, London </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>It is high time that workers and their unions should openly and proudly publish their views, their aims and their tendencies and meet the capitalist agenda with a manifesto of their own. Fairness, equality and solidarity should once again come centre stage, with trade unions and collective bargaining playing a leading role.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>TUC Congress may be smaller in size and shorter in length this year but the issues to be addressed could not be bigger. Show your support for our Manifesto for Trade Unionists and swell the ranks of TUC delegates by joining us at this open event.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1031" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="IER publicatiaons screen shot.png" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/51" style='position:absolute;margin-left:1.5pt;margin-top:0;width:150pt;height:81.75pt;z-index:1;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' o:button="t">
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