[IER] The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) at TUC Congress

[Ben Sellers]

News brief 14/10/22   View this email in your browser 





The IER at TUC Congress: Now is the time for a New Deal for Workers


50 years after the case of the Pentonville Five, trade unionists are once again struggling to maintain their hard won rights at work. With pernicious laws having been introduced over the last 50 years to slowly erode workers rights, and recent Government ‘kite flying’ in the media that they plan to attack workers’ right again to the point of criminalisation, we ask what lessons can be learned from the past when trade unionists were criminalised for enforcing their rights, and how the labour and trade union movement fights back.
Come and hear from our excellent speakers, as they share their analysis of the situation, and what they think the next steps should be.
Speakers
• Prof Keith Ewing, IER
• Dr Jo Grady, UCU
• Lord John Hendy QC, IER
• Esther Lynch, ITUC
• Mick Lynch, RMT
• Doug Nicholls, GFTU
• Mark Serwotka, PCS
• Dave Ward, CWU
• Yvette Williams MBE, Justice4Grenfell
• Chair: Sarah Woolley, BFAWU/CTUF
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Carolyn Jones retirement social at the TUC - book your place 
This social is to celebrate all Cad’s hard work, and to celebrate women making it to the top in the trade union movement. There will be a short presentation at the start. A buffet will be provided. The MIB band will be playing us out until the early hours too, so we can dance the night away.

18th October 2022 – from 8:30 pm
Regency Suite, The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, BN1 1NR


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Redistribution of Working Time report finds huge support for a shorter working week
“This report is the largest survey of the hopes, fears, dreams, and aspirations of workers on the matter of working time ever undertaken in the UK, with over two thousand individuals offering detailed responses." 

Ian Waddell CSEU General Secretary

Read the summary & key findings here. 
  


Read the full report here (free) 


The IWGB and strategic litigation: using the law within the strategies and tactics of work organising
Blog post by Alex Marshall, (IWGB)
Jamie Woodcock (Open University), the first in a new series of discussion articles. 


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‘Decarbonise now’, staff and students tell University of Liverpool
Groundbreaking ‘Green New Deal’ claim submitted jointly by University of Liverpool’s trade unions and Guild of Students 


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