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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" lang=EN-GB link=maroon vlink=maroon><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#FFFFCC'><tr style='height:846.0pt'><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;height:846.0pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=908 style='width:680.65pt'><tr style='height:227.45pt'><td width=908 style='width:680.65pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:227.45pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=887 style='width:665.35pt'><tr style='height:2.5pt'><td style='background:#FFFFCC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:2.5pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:200%'><span style='font-size:4.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#663300'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></td></tr><tr style='height:24.7pt'><td style='background:white;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;height:24.7pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#ED7D31'><img width=870 height=137 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D0F527.64BB23A0"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=924 style='width:693.1pt'><tr style='height:157.1pt'><td width=883 valign=top style='width:662.5pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:157.1pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:#ED7D31'>New Clip:</span></i></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:#ED7D31'> Keith Ewing and John Hendy discuss the Trade Union Bill.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZsS9tG9TgA&feature=youtu.be"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=557 height=312 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.png@01D0F48D.B4799F60"></span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>In this video the authors of our recent publication, <b><i>Protect the Right to Strike: Kill the Bill</i></b><i>,</i> discuss the Trade Union Bill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZsS9tG9TgA&feature=youtu.be"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=558 height=313 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image011.png@01D0F48D.B4799F60"></span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:28.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>John Hendy QC</span></b><span style='font-size:28.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> says:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>This Bill is “an attack on the rights of unions having an industrial voice”<span style='color:#1F497D'>. It</span> also aims to exclude “unions from having a political voice” as well as “an effective voice in civil society.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>“Modern economists have pointed out that high levels of collective bargaining and high levels of workplace rights actually are conducive to a good economy […] this bill is shooting the economy in the foot.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The bill can be considered “illegal in the sense that these proposals are in breach of international treaties which Britain has ratified and therefore in breach of international law.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZsS9tG9TgA&feature=youtu.be"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=558 height=313 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image012.png@01D0F48D.B4799F60"></span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:28.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Professor Keith Ewing </span></b><span style='font-size:28.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>says:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>That this bill is “the most serious attack on trade union freedom in a generation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>In particularly it is “a massive attack on public sector trade unionism” in 3 ways: “one attacking financial security, two attacking workplace representation and thirdly attacking the right to strike.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoListParagraph align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>This Bill represents “a serious attack on the human rights and civil liberties of trade unions. And a serious attack on the right to freedom of political expression.” It is “an extraordinary step backwards into the middle ages in terms of constitutional principle”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>To accompany the video and to inform this crucial debate, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>IER launches TWO new publications on the Trade Union Bill<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/conservative-government%E2%80%99s-proposed-strike-ballot-thresholds-challenge-trade-unions-0"><img border=0 width=250 height=355 src="cid:image006.png@01D0F531.73BDDE10" align=left hspace=12 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"></a><![endif]><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:22.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#ED7D31'>The Conservative Government’s strike ballot thresholds: The challenge to trade unions </span></b><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:22.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Professor Ralph Darlington and Dr John Dobson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:115%'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>According to the authors of this timely report, the government is attempting to rush into law ‘the most sweeping and radical tightening of rules on industrial action since the Thatcher era of the 1980’s’. They warn that such proposals could result in ‘the biggest showdown over industrial relations for a generation’ and go on to drill down into one aspect of the government’s proposals – strike ballots. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The publication first explores the justification and underlying motivation for the introduction of new tougher strike ballot laws before questioning whether the technical measure proposed would increase balloting turn-outs. The pamphlet then retrospectively applies the new laws to previously held ballots by analysing a database the authors have compiled of ballots over the period 1997-2015. They conclude that the new legislation will make it very difficult for unions to mount officially sanctioned strikes in response to government-initiated austerity measures, especially those relating to national bargaining in the public sector and end by reflecting on the unions’ potential responses to the new legislation.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:right;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=41 style='width:30.75pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:157.1pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style='height:106.1pt'><td width=924 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:693.1pt;background:#CCCCCC;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:106.1pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><img border=0 width=114 height=84 id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image009.png@01D0F489.9108BBF0"><img border=0 width=236 height=212 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image010.png@01D0F489.9108BBF0"><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1031" src="cid:image003.gif@01D03664.0BD93C40"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>