[IER] IER News Brief 01/07/2016

[Sarah Glenister]

> IER News Brief 01/07/16	Follow us on Twitter	 
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> Friday 01st July 2016
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> On Tuesday 28 June, we launched our Manifesto for Labour Law at Westminster. Many thanks to all those who attended for this exciting event, at which Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Minister for Trade Unions Ian Lavery spoke to confirm that our policy recommendations will inform official labour policy on workers' rights in post-EU Britain.
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> The Manifesto, which proposes 25 policies, including reinstating a Ministry of Labour, extensive sectoral collective bargaining and the repeal of the Trades Union Act, is now available for just £10 on our website. 
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> Subscribers can now access an electronic copy of the publication for free and will receieve a hard copy in the post in the coming weeks. If you wish to subscribe to the IER for this and all of our other publications, as well as discounts on our conferences,please click here.
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> We are also happy to discuss bulk offers for unions. Please contact James Harrison on office at ier.org.uk or 0151 207 5265 for further information.
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> Under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the Labour Party is currently more sympathetic to our cause than it has been for decades, and now the UK has voted to leave the EU, it is vitally important a viable and progressive alternative to neoliberalism is planned and executed. We will be working hard to keep up momentum on our proposals and to widen support for a more progressive future by spreading the word across the UK, but we can't do it alone. 
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> The Institute of Employment Rights is a charity that runs largely on donations. To continue promoting our manifesto and informing the labour movement and the Labour Party, we need to raise funds.
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> We are asking for one-off donations from our supporters of whatever amount you can afford. Just over 5,600 people receive this News Brief every week. If every person donated just £10, we would raise £56,000 - enough to fund our work for the next year.
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> Lastly, we have set up a hub on our website to keep track of all the news and updates on the Manifesto for Labour Law. Check out a preview of the publication, quotes from supportive unions, all the latest news and comment, and try our free quiz on workers' rights and the UK economy!
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>  News and comment
> 		New Manifesto Calls For Penalising Blacklisting Bosses 
> Bosses who blacklist workers should face “criminal penalties,” according to a Manifesto for Labour Law unveiled by the Institute of Employment Rights. 
> > click here to read full story
> 		Shadow Chancellor: IER Manifesto will inform future Labour policy 
> Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has said that the Institute of Employment Rights' Manifesto for Labour Law will be used as a blueprint for future Labour policy. 
> > click here to read full story
> 		COMMENT: A Manifesto For Today’s World Of Work 
> Director of the IER Carolyn Jones, President Professor Keith Ewing and Chair John Hendy QC discuss the importance of our new Manifesto for Labour Law in the current climate. 
> > click here to read full story
> 		COMMENT: New strategy to tackle labour exploitation complicated by immigration and modern slavery focus 
> Dr Alex Balch, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at The University of Liverpool, analyses changes to the law around migrant labour. 
> > click here to read full story
>  How will leaving the EU affect public sector workers?
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> What now for employment law and workers' rights in the public sector? Join our experts to discuss the cuts, privatisation and how the referendum result may affect the state.
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>  IER fringes 2016
> 		Durham Fringe: 08 July 2016, 18:00 - 21:00 
> Speakers include Professor Keith Ewing (President, IER), John Hendy QC (Chair, IER), Davey Hopper (Secretary, Durham Miners' Association), and Napolean Gomez (President of Los Mineros from Mexico - Metal and Mineworkers)
> Bowes Room, Durham Marriott Hotel 
> 		UNITE Fringe: 11 July 2016, 17:30 
> While unions develop their strategies of resistance against the Trade Union Act 2016, Jeremy Corbyn promises to repeal the legislation and replace it with a new framework of workers’ rights. To assist, IER has developed a Manifesto for Labour Law. Come and listen to the Editors and collect a copy of the book. Speakers include Len McCluskey, Shadow Justice Minister Jo Stevens, John Hendy QC and Prof. Keith Ewing.
> Room 1, the Brighton Centre (rear of the Foyer) 
> 		Tolpuddle Fringe: 15 July 2016, 19:00 
> Speakers include Professor Keith Ewing (President, IER), Mark Serwotka (General Secretary of PCS), Joanne Kaye (South West Regional Secretary, Unison), Adrian Weir (Assistant National Secretary, CTUF) and Peter Hughes (South West Regional Secretary, UNITE)
> The Marquee 
>   Publications
> 		Access to Justice: Exposing the myths: £6
> By Andrew Moretta
> 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.
> > click here to read more and purchase
> 		Protect the right to strike: kill the bill: £5
> By John Hendy QC & Professor Keith Ewing
> 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.
> > click here to read more and purchase
> 		The Conservative Government’s proposed strike ballot thresholds: The challenge to trade unions: from £6
> By Professor Ralph Darlington and Dr John Dobson
> 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.
> > click here to read more and purchase
> 		The mythology of business: from £6
> By David Whyte
> 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.
> > click here to read more and purchase
>   Events
> 		LIVERPOOL: Public Sector cuts, Privatisation and Employment Rights
> 05 July 2016 - 09:30 - 15:30
> Unite the Union, Liverpool
> How far has the Government gone towards its promised British Bill of Rights? More importantly, how would such changes impact on the rights of UK citizens at work, in society and in the economy?
> > click here to read more
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