<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206); margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F2E3CE" style="position: static; z-index: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td width="56%" class="blue" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-size: 15px;">23/06/16</td><td width="40%" align="right" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><a href="http://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=4bcef0d5ca&e=0594b2782f" class="blue" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-size: 15px;">Follow us on Twitter</a></td><td width="4%" align="right" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td width="75%" bgcolor="#66667f" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><div class="heading1" style="font-size: 40px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;"><a name="Top of page"></a>Major unions support launch of Manifesto for Labour Law</div></td><td width="25%" bgcolor="#66667f" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/8ed8c1ba-51a4-46ad-a22f-6e685687a175.gif"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto;"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><p class="auto-style5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: normal; font-size: 17px;">The Communication Workers' Union (CWU), Trades Union Congress (TUC) and UNITE are the latest organisations to join the platform at the <a href="http://ier.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=31818a2926&e=0594b2782f">IER's launch of its Manifesto for Labour Law</a>.<br><br>The free Westminster event, on Tuesday 28 June, marks the publication of 25 policy recommendations for the next Labour government designed to inform labour law in 2020 and provide a viable and sustainable alternative to neoliberalism.<br><br>Our proposals are the result of a collaboration between 15 leading labour lawyers and academics from some of the UK's most prestigious universities to draft a new Manifesto for Labour Law, which seeks to ameliorate the UK's enormous wage gap and improve the productivity of the UK economy by giving workers a voice.<br><br>Dave Ward, General Secretary of CWU; Hannah Reed of the TUC; and Gail Cartmail, Assistant General Secretary of UNITE will now speak at the event, joining representatives from the Labour Party, IER, BFAWU, FBU and NUT as detailed below. The launch is free to attend and we expected a high turnout, so we encourage all interested parties to <a href="http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=45540f4699&e=0594b2782f">register their attendance on our EventBrite page</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>so as to avoid disappointment on the night.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><p class="auto-style7" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: normal; font-size: x-large;">Our expert panel:</p><p class="auto-style5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: normal; font-size: 17px;"><b>John McDonnell</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Shadow Chancellor</i><br><b>Ian Lavery</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Shadow Minister of Trade Unions</i><br><b>John Hendy QC</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Chair of the IER</i><br><b>Professor Keith Ewing</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>President of the IER</i><br><b>Ronnie Draper</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>General Secretary, BFAWU</i><br><b>Matt Wrack</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>General Secretary, FBU</i><br><b>Kevin Courtney</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>General Secretary, NUT</i><br><b>Gail Cartmail</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Assistant General Secretary, UNITE</i><br><b>Dave Ward</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>General Secretary, CWU</i><br><b>Hannah Reed</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Senior Policy Officer, TUC</i><br></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><p class="auto-style7" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: normal; font-size: x-large;">28 June, London,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=f6170eff5c&e=0594b2782f">Book your place now</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="15" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="64%" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><span class="blue" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">To unsubscribe, please contact<a href="mailto:sarah@ier.org.uk?subject=Unsubscribe">sarah@ier.org.uk</a>.<br></span><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td height="15" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="right" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><table width="88%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=2115234e09&e=0594b2782f" target="_blank" class="blueLink" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(48, 126, 194); text-decoration: none;">www.ier.org.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td height="20" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>