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<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:25.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>New interactive Coalition timeline<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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href="http://www.ier.org.uk/resources/Coalition-timeline"><img border=0
width=300 height=169 src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD8C2F.57DE2420" align=left
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v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The IER has launched a brand
new interactive timeline on the Coalition's ideological attack on workers'
rights and trade unions.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#413839'>We believe our<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://www.ier.org.uk/resources/Coalition-timeline"><span
style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Coalition timeline</span></a><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>is the first <b>free</b> resource of
its kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Use
your mouse – or finger on a touchscreen – to move through the last two years
of news and debate, following the erosion of workers’ rights by the
government since May 2010.<span style='color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Click
into a story to find out more about each issue and choose ‘read more’ to be
forwarded news articles form the time, or possibly even videos fronm trade
unions or other parties explaining the issues at hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
timeline is completely free to users and is brought to you and kept up to
date by the Institute of Employment Rights, a charity supporting the labour
movement and informing the debate around employment rights and trade union
freedoms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/resources/Coalition-timeline"><strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F;font-weight:normal;
text-decoration:none'>Click here to browse our interactive timeline</span></strong></a></span><span
style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:25.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Days of Action<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a
href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/days-action-legality-protest-strikes-against-government-cuts-0"><img
border=0 width=150 height=202 src="cid:image002.jpg@01CD8C39.C480EAE0"
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v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839;font-weight:normal'>Professor
Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC will be launching their publication Days of
Action: The legality of protest strikes against government cuts, at the <a
href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/gftu-and-ier-sunday-night-special">Sunday
Night Special</a>.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#A43F65;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#413839'>To order a copy of the book, <a
href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/days-action-legality-protest-strikes-against-government-cuts-0">click
here</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#413839'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:25.0pt;font-family:
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<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:25.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Fighting austerity<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Sunday
9<sup>th</sup> September<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#413839'>Workers and trade unions are eager to fight the dissolution of
their rights as outlined by our timeline,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>L<span
style='color:#413839'>egal experts from the IER will be joined by UNITE
General Secretary <b>Len McCluskey</b> at a <b>special fringe meeting</b> at
this year’s TUC Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#413839'>Do not miss out on the <a
href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/gftu-and-ier-sunday-night-special">Sunday
Night Special</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>
<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Professor Keith Ewing</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>, President of the IER
and Professor of Public Law at King’s College, London.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>John Hendy, QC</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>, Chair of the IER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Len McCluskey</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>, General Secretary of
UNITE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Location<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The Old Ship Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>King’s Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Brighton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>BN1 1NR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>RSVP
for fish and chip supper<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.4pt;background:
white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>If you
would like to book a fish and chip supper for when you attend the free
meeting, please email <a href="mailto:annette@gftu.org.uk">annette@gftu.org.uk</a></span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Sarah Glenister<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IT and Communications Assistant<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Institute of Employment Rights<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>4th Floor, Jack Jones House, 1 Islington, Liverpool. L3 8EG<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>0151 207 5265<o:p></o:p></p>
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