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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/ier-tuc-manifesto-collective-bargaining"><img border=0 width=400 height=92 src="cid:image003.jpg@01CEAB24.D04888F0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/IER%20at%20TUC%20Congress_0.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Reconstruction after the crisis: a manifesto for collective bargaining<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The IER will be launching its new publication Reconstruction after the crisis: a manifesto for collective bargaining at TUC Congress on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/ier-tuc-manifesto-collective-bargaining"><span style='color:#66667F'>Read about the manifesto here</span></a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Read about the need for collective bargaining in Sarah's blog below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1034" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Sarah%20Glenister.thumbnail.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/no-real-economic-change-will-be-felt-until-income-inequality-reduced" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:40.4pt;width:74.65pt;height:52.3pt;z-index:2;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:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-434 0 -434 21063 21701 21063 21701 0 -434 0" o:button="t">
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But the only real indicator of recovery is a long-term improvement in living standards. So how sustainable is the UK's wealth, and how many people feel its effects?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>TUPE<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Elsewhere, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://news.bis.gov.uk/Press-Releases/Changes-to-TUPE-rules-cut-red-tape-for-business-69289.aspx"><span style='color:#66667F'>released its new TUPE reforms</span></a>, which have been widely criticised by</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace/tuc-22562-f0.cfm"><span style='color:#66667F'>the TUC</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>and</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/gmb-on-changes-to-tupe"><span style='color:#66667F'>GMB</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>among others. The IER will respond to the new regulations next week.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Blacklisting<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>In</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>blacklisting</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>news, electrician Frank Morris, who was mentioned frequently in Assistant General Secretary of Unite Gail Cartmail's testimony to the Scottish Affairs Committee's inquiry into blacklisting, has been reinstated in his job on the Crossrail Project. A</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/bfk-and-unite-joint-statement/"><span style='color:#66667F'>joint statement was released</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>by Unite and Crossrail construction consortium Bam Ferrovial Keir (BFK) saying they had reached an agreement, and it was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23947650"><span style='color:#66667F'>reported in the media</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>that Mr Morris had been accepted back on site. The statement also noted that "BFK and Unite agree that there has been no contravention of the Blacklisting Regulations on the BFK Crossrail projects". However, as the Scottish Affairs Committee</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/scottish-affairs-committee/news/blacklisting-on-crossrail/"><span style='color:#66667F'>points out</span></a>, "it is unclear whether this proves the weakness of the Regulations and how easily they are avoided or represents an agreement that no blacklisting took place".<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Employee shareholders law introduced<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The controversial shares for rights scheme was brought in on 01 September 2013. Academic Roger Welch explains the new law and how trade unions should react to it below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_s1033" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Roger%20Welch.thumbnail.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/employee-shareholders-%E2%80%93-latest-tory-attack-workers%E2%80%99-rights" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:9.85pt;width:74.4pt;height:60.45pt;z-index:3;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:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-435 0 -435 20903 21774 20903 21774 0 -435 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/u-turns-expected-lobbying-bill-after-public-outcry-will-it-still-go-through-largely-untouched"><img border=0 width=99 height=70 src="cid:image004.jpg@01CEAB24.D04888F0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Sarah%20Glenister.thumbnail.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/u-turns-expected-lobbying-bill-after-public-outcry-will-it-still-go-through-largely-untouched"><span style='color:#66667F'>U-turns expected on Lobbying Bill after public outcry, but will it still go through largely untouched?</span></a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>By Sarah Glenister<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Next week, the Committee stage for the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill begins – coinciding with TUC Congress. And it seems public outcry may have forced the Tories to back down on some points.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/buy-access-justice-and-get-justice-deferred-half-price"><span style='color:#66667F'>Special offer: Buy Access to Justice and get Justice Deferred half price</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The Institute of Employment Rights is offering a special offer for a</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>limited period only</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>on our latest publications looking at the Coalition's reforms of employment tribunals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1031" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Access%20to%20Justice%20cover.thumbnail.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/buy-access-justice-and-get-justice-deferred-half-price" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:5.1pt;width:54.95pt;height:74.7pt;z-index:5;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:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-590 0 -590 21253 21816 21253 21816 0 -590 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/buy-access-justice-and-get-justice-deferred-half-price"><img border=0 width=73 height=100 src="cid:image006.jpg@01CEAB24.D04888F0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Access%20to%20Justice%20cover.thumbnail.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_5"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Access to Justice consists of essays on workers' current restraints from making claims authored by the UK's leading experts, including John Hendy QC and Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations Linda Dickens.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>When purchasing Access to Justice, readers will also receive Justice Deferred - our most popular publication of 2013 - from just £5. Solicitors David </span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_s1030" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Justice%20Deferred%20Publication%20cover.thumbnail.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/buy-access-justice-and-get-justice-deferred-half-price" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:-22.75pt;width:56.2pt;height:74.7pt;z-index:6;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:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-577 0 -577 21253 21331 21253 21331 0 -577 0" o:button="t">
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