IER News Brief
IER News Brief
25/09/18
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We've been very busy this week at the Labour Party Conference with our new publication Rolling out the Manifesto for Labour Law rushing off the shelves at stall a26. If you're at Conference, you still have time to drop by and pick up some freebies, including coasters, stickers, publications, brochures and tote bags.
Most exciting of all for us this week has been the wide support for Rolling Out. Our fringe on Monday lunchtime was packed with people who came to see John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing, Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey and CEO of Thompsons Solicitors Stephen Cavalier discuss how our 25 recommendations can be implemented to improve workers' rights.
Those who weren't able to catch the fringe could watch online on our live Twitter video. And if you missed that, don't worry, it's still available to view
But our own fringe was not the only one that celebrated the Manifesto. We've seen support from across conference this year. Find out more below.
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Real Britain: Where people have a voice
At Unite the Union and Daily Mirror's Real Britain: Where people have a voice fringe event on Sunday, John McDonnell told delegates that he was proud to be working with the Institute of Employment Rights and our Manifesto for Labour Law.
Watch McDonnell explain why he supports our work in the video below.
The World Transformed: The Future of Trade Unions
On Monday evening, our Director Carolyn Jones chaired the World Transformed event on the future of trade unions, where GMB General Secretary Tim Roache said he supported the Institute of Employment Rights' work and Dave Ward, General Secretary of CWU, announced he backed Rolling Out the Manifesto for Labour Law - click here to see the union's New Deal for Workers campaign.
On the dole: Will robots put us out of work?
At the University of Manchester's fringe event on automation on Tuesday lunchtime, Rolling out the Manifesto for Labour Law was discussed by delegates and the panel, particularly in terms of sectoral collective bargaining as a mechanism to ensure fairness in the roll out of new technologies.
Developing Labour's Industrial Strategy
At Unite the Union's fringe on Tuesday lunch time, Assistant General Secretary of Unite Tony Burke held up Rolling out the Manifesto for Labour Law to the applause of the entire panel, which included Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, TUC General Seretary Frances O'Grady and Assistant General Secretary of Unite Steve Turner.
Supporters at our stall
Changing laws; changing lives
VIDEOS: John McDonnell & Rebecca Long-Bailey
Our brochure
Our briefing
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The IER’s 2016 Manifesto for Labour Law garnered support from major unions across the UK, the Green Party, the Scottish Nationalist Party, and most of all the Labour Party. Indeed the Labour Party’s popular and influential 2017 Manifesto For the Many, Not the Few adopted many of the IER’s recommendations as a blueprint for future reform.
Now we present Rolling Out, a guide to how our recommendations could be practically implemented. This includes proposals for a Collective Bargaining Act and other legislative reforms to protect workers both domestically and across the international supply chains that support the UK’s economy.
At the heart of our proposals is a shift in the focus of labour law to the collective agreement of wages and conditions as opposed to statutory minimums that are outdated, difficult to enforce and inflexible in the face of a changing world of work. In this way, we seek to open the next chapter of democratic society by enhancing democracy at work.
The comprehensive recommendations detailed in this volume have been collaboratively authored by 26 leading labour lawyers and academics from some of the most prestigious universities in the UK. Taken together, they put forth a new framework for industrial relations and workers’ rights designed to better-fit the needs of a post-Brexit, increasingly automated and fragmented workforce.
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