<html><body><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F2E3CE" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td width="56%" class="blue" style="font-size: 15px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;">IER News Brief 19/02/16</td><td width="40%" align="right"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/ieruk" class="blue" style="font-size: 15px;" data-mce-href="http://www.twitter.com/ieruk" data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;">Follow us on Twitter</a></td><td width="4%" align="right"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td width="75%" bgcolor="#66667f"><div class="heading1"><a name="Top of page" class="mce-item-anchor"></a>news brief</div><div class="heading2">Friday 19th February 2016</div></td><td width="25%" bgcolor="#66667f"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/9360eba8-acef-43ce-9c06-deedc8d51def.gif" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/9360eba8-acef-43ce-9c06-deedc8d51def.gif"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td class="auto-style2">This week, we report on our Spring Rally for trade union rights and keep you up to date on the latest debates on the Trade Union Bill.<br><br>Don't forget our <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0"> <span class="auto-style13">Liverpool EU Developments: has social Europe disintegrated?</span></a> conference on 09 March 2016, which follows our <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-london-0" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-london-0"> <span class="auto-style13">popular event on the topic in London</span></a>.<br> <br> <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0"> <span class="auto-style13">Book your place now</span></a> to hear academic, legal, trade union and economic experts discuss the pros and cons of Brexit and inform your vote for the referendum. <br> <br> Subscribers receive all of our publications free and discount rates on our conferences. <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/subscribe" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/subscribe"> <span class="auto-style13">Subscribe now</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="height: 51px;" data-mce-style="height: 51px;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="height: 50px;" data-mce-style="height: 50px;" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td height="15"></td></tr><tr><td height="15" bgcolor="#A43F65" class="auto-style4"> News and comment</td></tr><tr><td height="5" class="auto-style4"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/e8673f87-a882-4b15-9e60-3cafddbf8e0a.png" width="99" height="98" alt="They are not 8, we are thousands" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/e8673f87-a882-4b15-9e60-3cafddbf8e0a.png"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style3">Spain: Airbus 8 Acquitted!</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">In a ruling on 16th February, a Spanish court acquitted eight Airbus aerospace workers facing prison terms of eight years and three months each for having participated in a peaceful strike in 2010. </span> <br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/spain-airbus-8-acquitted" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/spain-airbus-8-acquitted"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/d22e2028-a742-4023-ab31-0ead8a24a874.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="Trade Union Bill" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/d22e2028-a742-4023-ab31-0ead8a24a874.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style3">HoL debate: Trade Union Bill 'will lengthen conflict and increase litigation'</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">Peers from across parties have argued new legislation in the Trade Union Bill has no justification and will agitate rather than resolve conflict between employers and unions. </span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/hol-debate-trade-union-bill-will-lengthen-conflict-and-increase-litigation" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/hol-debate-trade-union-bill-will-lengthen-conflict-and-increase-litigation"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top" style="height: 98px;" data-mce-style="height: 98px;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/6ca91dd7-e2ae-4ebe-b9c4-12b66dd7e5af.png" width="99" height="98" alt="Carolyn Jones" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/6ca91dd7-e2ae-4ebe-b9c4-12b66dd7e5af.png"></td><td style="width: 4%; height: 98px;" data-mce-style="width: 4%; height: 98px;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top" style="height: 98px;" data-mce-style="height: 98px;"><span class="auto-style3">COMMENT: We can't allow the Tories to arrogantly flout international law</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">Director of the IER Carolyn Jones explains the International Labour Organization's complaint on the Trade Union Bill and why it is important we do not allow the Tories to ignore it.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/we-cant-allow-tories-arrogantly-flout-international-law" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/we-cant-allow-tories-arrogantly-flout-international-law"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/d22e2028-a742-4023-ab31-0ead8a24a874.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="Trade Union Bill" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/d22e2028-a742-4023-ab31-0ead8a24a874.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style3">RALLY REPORT: Kill the Bill and beyond – NUT Mander Hall 11th February 2016 </span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">James Harrison reports on last week's packed rally, co-organised with the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, People's Assembly, Class and the Trade Union Coordinating Group. </span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/kill-bill-and-beyond-%25E2%2580%2593-nut-mander-hall-11th-february-2016" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/kill-bill-and-beyond-%25E2%2580%2593-nut-mander-hall-11th-february-2016">> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td height="15"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="height: 15px;" data-mce-style="height: 15px;"></td></tr><tr><td height="15" bgcolor="#5bafac" class="auto-style4"> Publications</td></tr><tr><td height="5"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/8f71bfa5-d450-4f2e-b1ba-a43b7eb68dc9.jpg" width="99" height="142" alt="Kill the Bill" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/8f71bfa5-d450-4f2e-b1ba-a43b7eb68dc9.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style5">Protect the right to strike: kill the bill: £5</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"> <b>By John Hendy QC & Professor Keith Ewing</b></span><br>Two leading experts on trade union rights – Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC – publish a short but comprehensive overview of the Trade Union Bill and its implications.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/protect-right-strike-kill-bill" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/protect-right-strike-kill-bill"> > click here to read more and purchase</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/e05f7915-402f-48d5-8884-9707a980ac4b.jpg" width="99" height="142" alt="Ballot Thresholds" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/e05f7915-402f-48d5-8884-9707a980ac4b.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style5">The Conservative Government’s proposed strike ballot thresholds: The challenge to trade unions: from £6</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"> <b>By Professor Ralph Darlington and Dr John Dobson</b><br>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’.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/conservative-government%E2%80%99s-proposed-strike-ballot-thresholds-challenge-trade-unions-0" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/conservative-government%E2%80%99s-proposed-strike-ballot-thresholds-challenge-trade-unions-0"> > click here to read more and purchase</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/8eccc43e-4777-4c56-a7ba-64acab2f312a.jpg" width="99" height="141" alt="Keithe Ewing" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/8eccc43e-4777-4c56-a7ba-64acab2f312a.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style5">The mythology of business: from £6<br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"> <b>By David Whyte</b></span></span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">The ‘myths’ that this publication takes into consideration are the kind of things that politicians now routinely say without thinking. Yet these 10 myths have very little foundation in reality and are rarely, if ever, accompanied with any concrete evidence to support them.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/mythology-business" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/mythology-business"> > click here to read more and purchase</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="height: 51px;" data-mce-style="height: 51px;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="height: 50px;" data-mce-style="height: 50px;" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td height="15" class="auto-style8"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="15" bgcolor="#773b6a" class="auto-style4"> Events</td></tr><tr><td height="5"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/7c7375b9-117a-46b7-9902-eb2df87df038.jpg" width="99" height="117" alt="EU Developments" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/7c7375b9-117a-46b7-9902-eb2df87df038.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style6">LIVERPOOL: EU Developments: has social Europe disintegrated?</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"><strong>09 March 2016 - 09:30 - 15:30<br>Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool</strong><br>Does the EU 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? Come along to this conference where we hope to inform your decision.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0"> > click here to read more</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="15"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td width="64%" valign="top"><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;" class="blue" data-mce-style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;">To unsubscribe, please contact <a href="mailto:sarah@ier.org.uk?subject=Unsubscribe" data-mce-href="mailto:sarah@ier.org.uk?subject=Unsubscribe">sarah@ier.org.uk</a>.</span><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td height="15"></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="right" valign="top"><table width="88%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9px;" data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: 9px;">Produced by:<br> Institute of Employment Rights,<br> 4th Floor, Jack Jones House<br> 1 Islington<br> Liverpool L3 8EG<br> 0151 207 5265<br> <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk" class="blueLink" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk">www.ier.org.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td height="20"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><style class="existing-message-styles" type="text/css">div.msg-quote , td, th {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);}
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