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Gould<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#F2E3CE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='margin-bottom:4.8pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white'>London: Thursday 27th June<br>Liverpool: Wednesday 10th July<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td><td width="25%" style='width:25.0%;background:#66667F;padding:9.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#F2E3CE'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/42bef9e9-0080-4d3d-9334-2e260fdb3b8d.gif" alt=42bef9e9-0080-4d3d-9334-2e260fdb3b8d.gif><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#F2E3CE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:9.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=auto-style2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Book now to attend this free event in <a href="https://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=2e7e3234e6&e=71131c031b">London</a> or <a href="https://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=2e5a562447&e=71131c031b">Liverpool</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=auto-style9><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Whatever the future brings in terms of the EU and international trade deals, developments in labour law will be central to the debate. <br><br>In the UK, attacks on trade unions, the decline in collective bargaining and the growth of the “gig” economy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have all had a negative impact on workers’ rights. Unions are challenging and winning legal cases on worker status. But a more radical, transformative change to the employment relationship is clearly needed if workplace power is to be rebalanced.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=auto-style2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How does the UK situation compare to workers’ rights in the US and what can we learn from recent developments in America?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=auto-style9><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bill Gould, past Chair of the National Labor Relations Board has vast experience of American labour law. He has adjudicated on cases involving trade union struggles to win recognition and has played a central role in monitoring and enforcing labour standards on unwilling and often hostile employers. His insights into past and present battles between employers and workers can help focus a discussion on the kind of strategies and policies needed to change the nature of workplace relations and the role of the State.<br><br>Bill Gould will be joined at the London event by John Hendy and Keith Ewing.<br><br>Bill Gould is author of A Primer on American Labor Law, 6th edition, published May 2019. 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