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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-london-0"><img border=0 width=300 height=349 src="cid:image001.jpg@01D151F7.90AD8D40" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/EU%20flyer.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#773B6A'>Tuesday 9 February 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>A one-day conference</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>GMB, 22 Stephenson Way, Euston, London, WC1X 8TN</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>9.30am – 3.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Organised by the Institute of Employment Rights and sponsored by Morrish Solicitors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><a href="http://www.morrishsolicitors.com/"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=90 height=100 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D151F7.90AD8D40" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/MorrishNew%20logo%20original.thumbnail.jpg"></span></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="40%" style='width:40.0%;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'></td></tr><tr><td width="60%" valign=top style='width:60.0%;padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#773B6A'>About the Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>David Cameron has said he wants to renegotiate the terms of EU membership but his plans remain vague.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> TUC </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>General Secretary Frances O’Grady has called on Mr Cameron to rule out any attack on workers’ rights while, during the Labour leadership campaign, Jeremy Corbyn refused to rule out campaigning for Britain to leave the EU if the Tories tried to “trade away” workers’ rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Cameron’s silence on these issues does not remove fears that they remain under threat from his clear aim of deregulating EU rights in his determination to reduce ‘burdens’ for business and make the EU a business-only club. In response, the</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> ETUC </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>has warned that it will not accept the negotiating away of fundamental rights. At the same time, discussions on trade deals like</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> TTIP </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>continue as do Troika imposed attacks on collective bargaining in EU member states.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>So what is the reality of the European Union? Does it protect our rights at work and promote prosperity and jobs? Or is it a ‘bosses club’ that places freedom of capital over workers’ rights? Is social Europe growing or withering? Can the EU be democratised and transformed or is it doomed to fail like the austerity policies it increasingly promotes?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Speakers at this event will look in some detail at aspects of the European Union project and delegates can expect a variety of opinions on the way forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>So, still undecided on whether to vote yes or no in the referendum? Come along to this conference where we hope to inform your decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt 6.0pt'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#5F497A'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-london-0"><span style='color:#5F497A'>Book online</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Sarah Glenister<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Development Officer<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal>Institute of Employment Rights<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>3rd Floor, Arena Point, 1 Hunts Bank, Manchester, M3 1UN<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>0161 661 6718<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>