[IER] IER Director sets out vision for the future

Fri Nov 26 17:07:45 GMT 2021

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New Director of the IER, Ben Sellers, has paid tribute to the work of long-standing outgoing Director Carolyn Jones who helped establish the IER in 1989. In a new article, he sets out his vision for the future, which includes building on the IER's success over the last 30 years, and expanding the IER's network of experts to ensure that work can continue into the future.

He says: "The Institute contributed massively to the last Labour manifesto, and was instrumental to what was, in my opinion, the most ground-breaking part of it: the proposals for a Ministry of Employment Rights under Laura Pidcock – sectoral collective bargaining and the replacement of decades of anti-trade union legislation with the most comprehensive Industrial Relations Bill this country has ever seen. It would have entailed a seismic shift in the relations between worker and boss and would have revolutionised our economy."

He adds: "So, one of my priorities will be to raise the profile of the Institute, not for the sake of it, but in order to employ the brilliant expertise we have in these new areas and demographics. The IER has done such valuable work for the three decades of its existence, and that has been down to the accumulated knowledge of its people. And that, ultimately, is what it’s about: the people involved are its biggest resource."

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