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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/1782"><img border=0 width=200 height=147 src="cid:image001.gif@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.img_assist_custom.gif" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>News Brief 11/10/2013<o:p></o:p></span></h1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/1782"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>View in your browser</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/1782"></a></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>In the news this week<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>This week, the widely controversial Lobbying Bill was passed in the House of Commons and had its first reading in the House of Lords. Elsewhere, another hardline collection of Coalition proposals in the form of the Immigration Bill<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/10/immigration-bill-would-mean-identity-checks-for-all"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>raised a storm in the media</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Thanks to attendees of the Employment Law Update 2013<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1037" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ELU%20Liverpool%20cover.img_assist_custom.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:113.7pt;margin-top:-142.15pt;width:112.6pt;height:131.85pt;z-index:-12;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' wrapcoords="-288 0 -288 21379 21581 21379 21581 0 -288 0" o:button="t">
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We have received very positive feedback from the event and are proud that we have been able to maintain the standards of previous installments of our most popular series of conferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>You can download all documentation - including slides and papers - from the event by clicking here</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Those in the North West who missed out on the event still have an opportunity to attend the next Employment Law Update in Liverpool, which will be held on 06 November 2013.<a 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style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/resources/coalition-timeline"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Click here to see the Coalition Timeline</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Trade union rights<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#413839'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Tories call firefighters 'reckless' and 'selfish' (11/10/2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#413839'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Govt attempts to push Lobbying Bill through at breakneck speed (09/10/2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Equality<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#413839'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Tory admits sexist leaning in Party (10/10/2013)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Immigration and Migrant Workers<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_4" o:spid="_x0000_s1036" 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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/labour-migration-hard-times"><img border=0 width=99 height=117 src="cid:image005.jpg@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Labour%20Migration%20in%20Hard%20Times%20Cover.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Theresa May this week announced an Immigration Bill intended to make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to access public services. The Tories have been accused of appealing to less tolerant sections of society with their ineffective "Go Home" vans, and this Bill is likely to stir-up similar emotion.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Despite the government's negative pronouncements on immigration over the years, research shows that many of those who oppose the movement of workers into the UK have been misled. For instance,<a href="http://niesr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publications/100112_105822.pdf"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>it is not true that immigrants are a drain on the UK's resources</span></a>;<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://niesr.ac.uk/blog/british-jobs-and-foreign-workers-todays-reports-immigration-and-unemployment#.UlV0AobrzBY"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>nor that migrant workers are a significant cause of unemployment among British nationals</span></a>.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/publications/working/2007-04.pdf"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>It is not even true to say that the UK is irreversibly segregated along race lines - a popular myth - but it is true that they are segregated by economic inequality</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The real problem with immigration is the way in which migrants are treated once they get to this country, with unfair employment laws hitting them much harder - and in different ways - to the rest of society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>We are excited to host the forthcoming conference Labour Migration in Hard Times, at which the UK's leading experts on Migrant workplace rights will speak.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/labour-migration-hard-times"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Book your place now by clicking here</span></a></b><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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Trade union rights<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1035" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/controversial-lobbying-bill-passed-commons" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:7.7pt;width:74.5pt;height:55.6pt;z-index:-10;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 18647 1305 20978 21745 20978 21745 2331 20440 0 -435 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/controversial-lobbying-bill-passed-commons"><img border=0 width=99 height=74 src="cid:image006.gif@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_5"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/controversial-lobbying-bill-passed-commons"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Controversial Lobbying Bill passed by Commons</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The widely controversial Lobbying Bill has been passed by the House of Commons<br>and has had its first reading in the House of Lords.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_s1034" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/govt-attempts-push-lobbying-bill-through-breakneck-speed" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:5.4pt;width:74.2pt;height:55.6pt;z-index:-9;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="-437 0 -437 18647 1310 20978 21396 20978 21396 2331 20523 0 -437 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/govt-attempts-push-lobbying-bill-through-breakneck-speed"><img border=0 width=99 height=74 src="cid:image006.gif@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_6"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/govt-attempts-push-lobbying-bill-through-breakneck-speed"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Govt attempts to push Lobbying Bill through at breakneck speed</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Members of the opposition have spoken out in Parliament after the government continued in its attempt to push the widely controversial Lobbying Bill through at such a pace that thorough scrutiny is impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Blacklisting<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_7" o:spid="_x0000_s1033" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-blog_0.thumbnail.gif" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/ier-welcomes-proposed-compensation-scheme-blacklisted-workers-not-even-beginning-end" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:11.95pt;width:74.2pt;height:55.6pt;z-index:-8;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="-437 0 -437 18647 1310 20978 21396 20978 21396 2331 20523 0 -437 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/ier-welcomes-proposed-compensation-scheme-blacklisted-workers-not-even-beginning-end"><img border=0 width=99 height=74 src="cid:image007.gif@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-blog_0.thumbnail.gif" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_7"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/ier-welcomes-proposed-compensation-scheme-blacklisted-workers-not-even-beginning-end"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>IER welcomes proposed compensation scheme for blacklisted workers; but this is not even the beginning of the end</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) welcomes the news that eight major construction firms involved in the blacklisting scandal have admitted wrong and proposed a joint compensation scheme for those who lost their livelihoods through the abhorrent practice. But President of the IER Professor Keith Ewing has warned that this does not mark the end of the blacklisting scandal.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Workplace rights<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_8" o:spid="_x0000_s1032" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Roger%20Jeary%20shadow.img_assist_custom.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/what-experts-say-employment-law-update" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:12.4pt;width:74.5pt;height:89.75pt;z-index:-7;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 21299 21745 21299 21745 0 -435 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/what-experts-say-employment-law-update"><img border=0 width=99 height=120 src="cid:image008.jpg@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Roger%20Jeary%20shadow.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_8"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/what-experts-say-employment-law-update"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>What the experts say: An Employment Law Update</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>By Roger Jeary</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Roger Jeary, a delegate at the Institute of Employment Rights' Employment Law Update conference, describes the views and lessons of the UK's leading lawyers and trade union officials speaking at the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td><td width="40%" valign=top style='width:40.0%;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=200 height=133 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image009.jpg@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ad%20banner%20narrow.img_assist_custom.jpg"></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Sponsor our news briefs<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Help support our charity and the work we do, as well as advertising your services or products to 5,600 trade unionists, solicitors, academics and others interested in trade union and employment rights. Contact<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:sarah@ier.org.uk"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>sarah@ier.org.uk</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>for more details.<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:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>IER Manifesto for Collective Bargaining<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_10" o:spid="_x0000_s1031" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Collective%20Bargaining%20infographic.thumbnail.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/aslef-becomes-tenth-union-back-ier-manifesto-collective-bargaining" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:59.45pt;margin-top:-142.15pt;width:74.6pt;height:74.8pt;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:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-434 0 -434 21225 21716 21225 21716 0 -434 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0"><img border=0 width=85 height=98 src="cid:image013.jpg@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ELU%20Liverpool%20cover.thumbnail.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_13"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Wednesday 06 November 2013</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><br><i>A one-day conference</i><br>The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Tupe Update: The New Regulations<br><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Wednesday 23 October 2013</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><br></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839;font-weight:normal'>A one-day conference</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839;font-weight:normal'><br></span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_14" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/TUPE%20Update%20cover.thumbnail.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:-46.95pt;width:64.15pt;height:74.8pt;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="-505 0 -505 21225 21718 21225 21718 0 -505 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations"><img border=0 width=86 height=100 src="cid:image014.jpg@01CEC6A2.DC6018D0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/TUPE%20Update%20cover.thumbnail.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_14"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839;font-weight:normal'>UNISON, Euston Road, London</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Labour Migration in Hard Times<br><br></span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_15" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Labour%20Migration%20in%20Hard%20Times%20Cover.thumbnail.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/labour-migration-hard-times" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:22.65pt;width:63.45pt;height:74.8pt;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:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-511 0 -511 21225 21447 21225 21447 0 -511 0" o:button="t">
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