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On Tuesday (12 May) Democrats in the senate blocked the fast-track bill, with all but one Democrat voting against it. <b>UPDATE:</b> After lobbying by Obama the bill <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/14/controversial-fast-track-trade-bill-clears-procedural-hurdle-in-us-senate"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>cleared the senate</span></a>, but may well still be stopped in the House of Representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/ttip-update-unctad-report-and-setback-senate"><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:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>Union News<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'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>Blacklisting<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Victims of blacklisting are back in the High Court this week in their fight to secure the justice they deserve from Carillion and the other construction companies. An event on the issue, <b>Blacklisting: The secret war between big business and trade union activists</b>, is being held in London on June 2, more information <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/blacklisting-event-secret-war-between-big-business-and-trade-union-activists"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>here</span></a>.<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>ITV staff on strike<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Journalists, production and other staff went on a 24-hour strike over pay yesterday, putting a stop to ITV services. Bectu members had been offered a £1,200 annual bonus, while ITV CEO Adam Crozier received a bonus of £250 million. Assistant general secretary Spencer MacDonald told the <a href="https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-6852-ITV-staff-shut-down-channel-during-strike#.VVWQPUuivwI"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Morning Star</span></a>; “I think overall people are quite fed up in terms of the way the company has treated them. [ITV] posted profits of something around three quarters of a billion pounds so they are really frustrated”. NUJ and Unite also had members on strike.<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>Employment Tribunal News<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Good News: An EAT has ruled that the appellant in the Goldwater v Sellafield case was infact entitled to recover the ET fees paid by his union, UCU.<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:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>Conservative Timeline<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>As the coalition comes to an end and the conservatives are ushered in unfettered, we replace our <i>Coalition Timeline</i> with a</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Conservative</span></i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'> one. The Coalition Timeline will remain online for you to look back at.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/resources/coalition-timeline"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=250 height=136 id="_x0000_i1095" src="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Screen%20Shot%202014-07-25%20at%2011.29.14.img_assist_custom.png"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><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:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><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:12.0pt;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 Conservative Timeline</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'><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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>Trade Union Freedoms<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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Conservatives press ahead with attack on right to strike (11/5/15)<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>Other<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-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Cameron’s new cabinet (12/5/15)<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:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>IER Manifesto for Collective Bargaining<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1038" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/resources/reconstruction-after-crisis-manifesto-collective-bargaining" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:112.5pt;height:112.5pt;z-index:251683840;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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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/peoples-assembly-end-austerity-now-demonstration"><img border=0 width=100 height=38 src="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/nda.thumbnail.jpg" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="_x0000_s1032"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Saturday, 20 June 2015</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'>The IER, a founder signatory to the People’s Assembly, is supporting this post-election demonstration to keep our anti-austerity message at the public and political forefront. More details<a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/peoples-assembly-end-austerity-now-demonstration"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>here</span></a>.<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:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>Human Rights: Possibilities and Problems for Labour Law<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_s1034" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-london-0" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:82.5pt;height:100.5pt;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" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-london-0"><img border=0 width=110 height=134 src="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/flyer%20cover_2.img_assist_custom.png" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="_x0000_s1034"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Wednesday 1 July 2015</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>Diskus Room, Unite the Union, London</span></i><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'>The Tory government is gearing up to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights. They plan to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a British Bill of Rights. So what would withdrawal from the ECHR mean for employment rights and worker protections? This conference aims to shed light on the issues by focusing on the kind of workplace abuses that the Convention aims to protect us against.<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:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'>Publications<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_s1035" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/justice-deferred-critical-guide-coalitions-employment-tribunal-reforms" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:75pt;height:102pt;z-index:251677696;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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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/justice-deferred-critical-guide-coalitions-employment-tribunal-reforms"><img border=0 width=100 height=136 src="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Justice%20Deferred%20Publication%20cover.img_assist_custom.jpg" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="_x0000_s1035"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/justice-deferred-critical-guide-coalitions-employment-tribunal-reforms"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Justice Deferred: a critical guide to the Coalition’s employment tribunal reforms</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>By David Renton and Anna Macey</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'>This publication offers a chilling reminder of the extent to which access to justice is being systematically shut down by the Coalition government.<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_s1036" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:75pt;height:102pt;z-index:251679744;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-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:12.0pt;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></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#413839'>By Dr Lydia Hayes and Professor Tonia Novitz</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'>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_s1037" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:75pt;height:102pt;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">
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