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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/1848"><img border=0 width=100 height=74 src="cid:image001.gif@01CEED26.252672E0" 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_1"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/node/1848"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>View in your browser</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></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:12.0pt;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'>Following recent news that the UK has now entered an economic recovery, new research has shown that any improvements are being felt by those at the top of the ladder significantly more than those at hte bottom.<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'><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/18/executive-pay-up-14-percent"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Executive pay is rising 20 times faster than that of the average worker</span></a>, the figures from Income Data Services showed.<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've gone into more depth on a wide range of stories this week. Click through on the stories below to read more.<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>New on the Coalition Timeline<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=392 height=189 id="Picture_x0020_39" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CEED26.252672E0" alt="Coalition Timeline.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:11.0pt;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'>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: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'>Cop-out shared parental leave law announced (29/11/2013)<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'>Equality is not possible, says Boris (27/11/2013)<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'>Increasing vulnerability in the workplace<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'>Greed is good, says Boris (27/11/2013)<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Time is running out to support the Shrewsbury 24!</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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'><a href="http://www.shrewsbury24campaign.org.uk/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=299 height=128 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CEED26.252672E0" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/shrewsbury%2024.img_assist_custom.jpg"></span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.shrewsbury24campaign.org.uk/"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Sign the petition to fight for justice for the Shrewsbury 24</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><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 Shrewsbury 24 Campaign seeks to overturn the unjust prosecution of 24 building workers who were charged following the first ever national building workers strike in 1972. They picketed building sites in Shrewsbury during the dispute and were prosecuted in Shrewsbury Crown Court in 1973. They became known as the "Shrewsbury 24".<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'>There is just three weeks left to sign the petition. Please<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.shrewsbury24campaign.org.uk/"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>put your name to it</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and share widely.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Last chance to join the conversation on equality<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_4" o:spid="_x0000_s1046" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Equality%20and%20Discrimination%20cover%20London.img_assist_custom.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/equality-and-discrimination-what-next-equal-rights-0" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:251.25pt;margin-top:-232.5pt;width:75pt;height:87.75pt;z-index:-21;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="-432 0 -432 21415 21600 21415 21600 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/equality-and-discrimination-what-next-equal-rights-0"><img border=0 width=100 height=117 src="cid:image004.jpg@01CEED26.252672E0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Equality%20and%20Discrimination%20cover%20London.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_4"></a><![endif]><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'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/equality-and-discrimination-what-next-equal-rights-0"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Book now to avoid disappointment</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><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'>This week,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/28/boris-johnson-economic-equality-isnt-possible-some-people-have-low-iqs-4205406/"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>London Mayor Boris Johnson asserted</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>that the world cannot be equal due to naturally occurring differences in people's IQ.<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'>With such ideology at the top of the Conservative Party, it is urgent for the trade union movement to be the purveyor of the most innovative ideas and proposals on equality.<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'>At this conference, the UK's leading experts in equality will be joining delegates to present the latest changes to the law and discuss what can be done to protect our workers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/equality-and-discrimination-what-next-equal-rights-0"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Book now</span></a></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Labour Migration<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_5" o:spid="_x0000_s1045" 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/how-uk-can-escape-becoming-nasty-country-eu" style='position:absolute;margin-left:251.25pt;margin-top:-232.5pt;width:75pt;height:52.5pt;z-index:-20;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="-432 0 -432 20983 21600 20983 21600 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/how-uk-can-escape-becoming-nasty-country-eu"><img border=0 width=100 height=70 src="cid:image005.jpg@01CEED26.252672E0" 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_5"></a><![endif]><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/how-uk-can-escape-becoming-nasty-country-eu"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>How the UK can escape becoming the nasty country of the EU</span></a></span></i></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><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'>By Sarah Glenister</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'>László Andor, the EU employment commissioner, has warned the UK that new restrictions against migrants could see it portrayed as the "nasty country" of the EU. The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) recently conducted extensive research into labour migration and how the problems surrounding immigration can be resolved in a way that benefits all. But while the IER strongly recommends a "rights-based" model, the government continues to court controversy with plans for restrictions that aim to resolve an issue that does not exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_s1044" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Labour%20Migration%20in%20Hard%20Times.img_assist_custom.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/labour-migration-hard-times-reforming-labour-market-regulation" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:251.25pt;margin-top:-232.5pt;width:75pt;height:102pt;z-index:-19;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="-432 0 -432 21282 21600 21282 21600 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/labour-migration-hard-times-reforming-labour-market-regulation"><img border=0 width=100 height=136 src="cid:image006.jpg@01CEED26.252672E0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Labour%20Migration%20in%20Hard%20Times.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_6"></a><![endif]><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'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/labour-migration-hard-times-reforming-labour-market-regulation"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Labour Migration in Hard Times: Reforming labour marketing regulation?</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><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'>A collection of papers by the UK's leading experts on labour migration on the exploitation of migrant workers and the need for labour law reform.<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><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'>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_7" o:spid="_x0000_s1043" 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/unionised-workplaces-better-protected-against-recession-study-finds" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:7.9pt;width:75pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:-18;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="-432 0 -432 18681 1296 21016 21600 21016 21600 2335 20304 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/unionised-workplaces-better-protected-against-recession-study-finds"><img border=0 width=100 height=74 src="cid:image001.gif@01CEED26.252672E0" 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_7"></a><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/unionised-workplaces-better-protected-against-recession-study-finds"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Unionised workplaces are better protected against recession, study finds</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><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'>Recognising trade unions helps to protect employers against recession, a new study has found, providing yet more data to support the Institute of Employment Rights' policy proposals to improve collective bargaining levels across the UK.<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_8" o:spid="_x0000_s1042" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/the%20peoples%20assembly.thumbnail.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/fight-coalition-attack-trade-unions" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:7.15pt;width:75pt;height:39.75pt;z-index:-17;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="-432 0 -432 21192 21600 21192 21600 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/fight-coalition-attack-trade-unions"><img border=0 width=100 height=53 src="cid:image007.jpg@01CEED26.252672E0" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/the%20peoples%20assembly.thumbnail.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_8"></a><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/fight-coalition-attack-trade-unions"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Fight Coalition attack on trade union</span></a>s</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><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 People's Assembly has provided a channel through which UK workers can fight back against the Coalition's attack on trade unions in the form of an online petition.<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:12.0pt;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_9" o:spid="_x0000_s1041" 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/ucatt-takes-construction-giants-court-over-blacklisting" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:6.4pt;width:75pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:-16;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="-432 0 -432 18681 1296 21016 21600 21016 21600 2335 20304 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/ucatt-takes-construction-giants-court-over-blacklisting"><img border=0 width=100 height=74 src="cid:image001.gif@01CEED26.252672E0" 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_9"></a><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/ucatt-takes-construction-giants-court-over-blacklisting"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>UCATT takes construction giants to court over blacklisting</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><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'>Construction workers' union UCATT has begun legal proceedings against several major construction companies who have been involved in the blacklisting scandal.<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_10" o:spid="_x0000_s1040" 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/sir-robert-mcalpine-denies-blacklisting-employees" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:5.65pt;width:75pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:-15;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="-432 0 -432 18681 1296 21016 21600 21016 21600 2335 20304 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/sir-robert-mcalpine-denies-blacklisting-employees"><img border=0 width=100 height=74 src="cid:image001.gif@01CEED26.252672E0" 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_10"></a><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/sir-robert-mcalpine-denies-blacklisting-employees"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Sir Robert McAlpine denies blacklisting employees</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><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'>Despite being arguably at the centre of the blacklisting scandal since the offices of blacklist compiler The Consulting Association (TCA) were raided in 2009, construction giant Sir Robert McAlpine has now denied to a high court judge that it ever blacklisted employees.<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_11" o:spid="_x0000_s1039" 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/welsh-assembly-demonstrates-progressive-attitude-blacklisting-scandal" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:8.65pt;width:75pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:-14;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="-432 0 -432 18681 1296 21016 21600 21016 21600 2335 20304 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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