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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/1536"><img border=0 width=150 height=206 src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE47EF.533EE630" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/workplace%20rep%20cover.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5BAFAC'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/political-attack-workplace-representation-legal-response"><span style='color:#5BAFAC'>The political attack on workplace representation - a legal response - available for order now</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>By Alan Bogg & K D Ewing</span></b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><i><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>Published June 2013 -<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>Presale now on</b></span></i><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>Legal experts respond to the Tory-led Coalition's attack on worker representation in this timely report.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="60%" valign=top style='width:60.0%;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5BAFAC'>About the book<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>As the authors of this timely report note in their opening sentence, "There is no shortage of laws protecting the right to be a trade union member and to take part in the activities of a trade union". And yet, as the report goes on to analyse, there is daily evidence that a growing number of trade union representatives are suffering from blacklisting and victimisation. Moreover, this is happening against a backdrop of a sustained and vindictive campaign of attack from the government, the press and from right wing pressure groups aimed at silencing the union voice at work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>The authors – Alan Bogg and Keith Ewing – outline the political nature of these attacks, focusing on the victimisation of trade unionists by employers and on government proposals to restrict workplace facilities for union representatives. In both instances the authors consider the legality of the attacks with reference to UK administrative law, UK labour law and human rights law as established by the European Convention on Human Rights and developed by recent case law at the European Court of Human Rights. The authors conclude that the UK is “a rogue state” when measured against the “modest yard stick of international human rights law” and they finish by offering a “ten point manifesto as a blueprint for political action and legal reform.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>The publication opens with Forewords from Bob Crow, General Secretary of the transport union, RMT and from Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the public services union, PCS. It concludes with a useful appendix on the rights of trade union representatives in other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="40%" valign=top style='width:40.0%;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5BAFAC'>Two easy ways to order this book<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#66667F'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/political-attack-workplace-representation-legal-response"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Pay by debit/credit card or Paypal</span></a></span><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#66667F'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>Or<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/Workplace%20rep%20attack%20order%20form.pdf"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>download our booking form</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>to pay by cheque<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5BAFAC'>Free to subscribers<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>Free access to subscribers will commence on June 1st when the publication is officially released.</span></b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>Subscribers should ensure they are logged in and scroll down to the bottom of the page where they will find a link to an electronic copy of the full book for free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>If are not already subscribed and would like access to all of our employment law publications for free, plus lower entry fees to our employment law conferences,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/subscription/become-subscriber-institute"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>click here to become a subscriber</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Sarah Glenister<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>IT Development and Communications Assistant<o:p></o:p></i></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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>