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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=416 valign=bottom style='width:11.0cm;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><h2><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/reviewing-lofstedt-what-now-health-and-safety-work-london"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=186 height=141 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD17E4.35069AA0" alt=IERlogo.gif></span></a></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm'><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#773B6A'>Friction Dynamics: Learning the lessons from a forgotten dispute<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2><span lang=EN style='font-size:24.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Monday 02 July 2012<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A half-day seminar</span></i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <br><b>Unite the Union, London </b><br>13:30 - 16:15<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In association with Unite the Union</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=421 style='width:315.75pt;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><p><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/friction-dynamics-learning-lessons-forgotten-dispute"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=401 height=504 id="Picture_x0020_0" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CD3383.3273E1C0" alt="Friction Dynamics.jpg"></span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=837 colspan=2 style='width:627.6pt;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=7 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></span></div></td></tr><tr><td width=416 valign=top style='width:11.0cm;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>About the Seminar<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In 2002 an employment tribunal in Liverpool announced that 86 workers dismissed by their former employer, Friction Dynamics Ltd, a car parts manufacturer in North Wales, had won their claims for unfair dismissal. The workers had been sacked for taking strike action in defence of their terms and conditions of employment and the recognition of their union, TGWU.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>But the tribunal victory was next to worthless. Their jobs were lost. No reinstatement orders were issued because the employer went into administration. Despite the company reconvening some months later as Dynamex Friction, the insolvency of the original employer meant that the workers only recovered their basic awards, money that came from the taxpayer not from the employer. Nevertheless, the workers remained on strike and on picket duty for two and a half years – making the strike</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>one of</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>the UK’s longest running workplace dispute.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In this, the 10th anniversary year of the tribunal decision, we meet to consider the implications of the dispute; the lessons to be learned for today and how and in what ways the law has changed, if at all, over the past 10 years. Friction Dynamics exposed the weaknesses in the UK’s framework of labour law including the doctrine of ‘protected industrial action’, the inadequacy of unfair dismissal remedies, the restrictions on solidarity action and the enormous loopholes in the protections offered by the TUPE Regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>At this event some of the key individuals involved in the dispute, including the lawyers who represented the workers at tribunal, will come together to examine the dispute and discuss how the law might be changed to better protect workers in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#763B6A'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=421 valign=top style='width:315.75pt;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.4pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bryan Davi</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>e</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>s<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.4pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The history and facts of the dispute</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.4pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.4pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gerald Parry, Unite the Union<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.4pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Supporting the grass roots: The role of the local trade union</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.4pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.4pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John Hendy QC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.4pt;line-height:normal'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Legal implications past and present</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A07997'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A07997'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/IER_frictiondynamics_London_2july2012finaldraft.pdf"><span style='color:#A07997'>Click here to download the full programme</span></a></span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#763B6A'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><h2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Cost<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>£45 Subscribers and members<br>£60 Trade unions<br>£120 Commercial<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Location<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>Diskus Room<br>Unite the Union<br>128 Theobolds Road<br>LONDON <br>WC1X 8TN<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Complete and return the </span><b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A07997'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/Booking%20Form%20Friction%20Dynamics%202-7-12.doc"><span style='color:#A07997'>attached booking form</span></a></span></u></b><span 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