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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/pay-falls-sixth-consecutive-year"><img border=0 width=100 height=74 src="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="_x0000_s1028"></a><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p></div><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>British workers are facing a sixth year of falling pay, figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have shown. Last week Ed Miliband pledged to tackle Britain’s “zero-zero economy”. “People [are] asking why they are on zero-hours contracts while those at the top get away with zero tax”, he said. “This zero-zero economy is a symptom of a deeply unequal, deeply unfair, deeply unjust country; a country I am determined to change”. While Miliband’s anti-inequality rhetoric is welcomed, there was a marked absence of any proposals on how to address it. Commenting on the statements, <b>Keith Ewing and John Hendy</b>, note that “The solution lies only in raising wages and equalising incomes, and the only way by which that will be done is by revitalising collective bargaining between trade unions and employers. Inequality levels have grown primarily because collective bargaining coverage has collapsed. While well-intentioned, living wage campaigns are a feeble alternative calculated to fail. Until Labour is prepared to take steps to empower trade unions and restore the universal coverage of collective bargaining, there will no meaningful solution to the problem of low pay and zero hours contracts.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/pay-falls-sixth-consecutive-year"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Read More…</span></a><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:#66667F'>JRF: A job is no longer a way out of poverty<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1029" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/jrf-job-no-longer-way-out-poverty%E2%80%9D" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:75pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:251665408;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:line;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t">
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Five countries accounted for 61% of modern slavery. Andrew Forrest, the founder of WFF said, “There is an assumption that slavery is an issue from a bygone era. Or that it only exists in countries ravaged by war and poverty. “These findings show that modern slavery exists in every country. 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</span><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/trade-unions-and-economic-inequality"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Trade Unions and Economic Inequality</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;color:#413839'>By Dr Lydia Hayes and Professor Tonia Novitz</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'>What is the point of trade unions? What do they deliver? Are trade unions relevant in 21st century modern society? These and many other questions are answered by the authors of this timely and well presented report. Order your copy<a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/trade-unions-and-economic-inequality"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'> here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1034" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:75pt;height:102pt;z-index:251675648;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:line;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page' o:allowoverlap="f">
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</span><span style='font-size:14.5pt;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:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>TUPE Update: the new Regulations, Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool<o:p></o:p></span></h3><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1037" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations-liverpool" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:82.5pt;height:100.5pt;z-index:251681792;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:line;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t">
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