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                        20/05/16</td>
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            <td class="auto-style2">Many thanks to all who attended our <a href="http://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=06eccd4b93&e=d6817ec71e">Human Rights Vs. Bill of Rights: What's in it for workers?</a> event yesterday. Look out on our our website for the papers and report from the event, which we will upload in the next week and include in next Friday's News Brief.<br><br>

            Our next event focuses on the public sector and privatisation and will be held in <a href="http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=eb03336bfc&e=d6817ec71e">London</a> in June and <a href="http://ier.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=be9fa6d1e9&e=d6817ec71e">Liverpool in July</a>.<br><br>

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            Joining Mark are Matt Wrack, General Secretary of FBU; Neil Todd of Thompsons Solicitors; Kate Ewing & Matthew Egan of UNISON’s home care workers project; Dr Lydia Hayes of Cardiff University and economist Andrew Fisher.<br><br>

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            <span class="auto-style3">Check-off ban unlawful, High Court rules
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            <span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has won a case against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after the government scrapped check-off for civil service workers.

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            <span class="auto-style3">Cameron agrees to NHS protection in TTIP, but Corbyn warns the battle is not won
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            <span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">David Cameron has agreed to an amendment on TTIP to protect the NHS, but leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn has warned that there are still many risks to the trade deal.</span><br>

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            <span class="auto-style3">COMMENT: British people on corruption in their own country: it’s far from squeaky clean
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            <span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">David Whyte and David Ellis of the University of Liverpool explain the results of their latest research, which showed a high degree of concern among British voters over corruption among politicians and corporations.

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            <span class="auto-style5">Access to Justice: Exposing the myths: £6</span><br><span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">
            <b>By Andrew Moretta</b></span><br>

            <span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">In the second of IER’s series of Mythbusters, Andrew Moretta considers the many myths surrounding access to justice, including the narrative surrounding the “red tape” and “burdens on business” ideology, which he believes paved the way for systematic attacks on the tribunal system.</span><br>

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            <span class="auto-style5">Protect the right to strike: kill the bill:
                        £5</span><br>

            <span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">

            <span 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>

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            <span class="auto-style5">The Conservative Government’s proposed strike ballot thresholds: The challenge to trade unions:
                        from £6</span><br>

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            <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’ and go on to drill down into one aspect of the government’s proposals – strike ballots.</span><br>

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            <span class="auto-style5">The mythology of business: from £6<br>

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            <b>By David Whyte</b></span></span><br>

            <span 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>

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            <span class="auto-style6">LONDON: Public Sector cuts, Privatisation and Employment Rights</span><br>

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            <span class="auto-style6">LIVERPOOL: Public Sector cuts, Privatisation and Employment Rights</span><br>

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