[IER] Fringe event at Labour Party Conference next week.

Wed Sep 17 15:50:50 BST 2014

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Labour Party Conference

Joint Fringe Meeting

IER and Campaign for Trade Union Freedom

Monday 22nd September 12.45pm - 1.45pm

Unite the Union Marquee, Manchester Central.

Delegates pass required

A Manifesto for

Collective Bargaining

The regulation of working conditions and pay is a key lever of economic
policy. High labour standards raise wages, increase demand, decrease
unemployment, raise tax revenue and diminish inequality. The neo-liberal
route of low labour standards and anti-union policies on the other hand
deliver the opposite - low wages, reduced consumption, decline in demand,
increased unemployment, higher dependence on benefits, reduced tax revenue
and a subsequent fall in the resources

required to deliver services. We've seen the results. Neo-liberalism has
failed. It's time to change track. If we want to reconstruct our economy we
need to build more efficient

and effective labour market structures. To do that we need a government
committed to bringing together both sides of industry - unions and employers
- under a statutory framework that encourages agreements

on terms and conditions of employment across whole sectors of our economy.
Such agreements should cover levels of wages, hours of work, holidays,
pensions, training, the employment of apprentices and more.

Is such a framework feasible? 
Are there precedents or legal standards we can look to? 
Does the political will exist to build a framework for working life that
delivers a strong economy based on social justice,

equality and fairness at work?

This meeting will launch a discussion around the need for a manifesto

which puts collective bargaining at the heart of the UK's economic

reconstruction. Copies of the new Manifesto will be available at the
meeting. 

Attacks on employment rights

and the systematic removal of

access to justice leave workers

vulnerable to exploitative

employers. Similarly, gagging

clauses on unions, restrictions

on the right to strike and the now

abandoned review by Bruce Carr

on the right of unions to engage

in public protests, all reflect the

determination of the government

to silence opposition to their

disastrous policies. The Institute

of Employment Rights (IER) and

the Campaign for Trade Union

Freedom (CTUF) work hand in

hand to promote fair rights and

free unions. This meeting will

consider what unions want in a

post-election agenda.

Speakers:

.         Katy Clark, MP

.         Stephen Cavalier, 

Thompsons Solicitors

.         Professor Keith Ewing

President, Institute of Employment Rights

.         John Hendy, QC

Vice President, Campaign for Trade Union Freedom

.         Len McCluskey

General Secretary, Unite the Union

.         Chair: Carolyn Jones

Director, Institute of Employment Rights

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