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policy proposals based on the wider <a href="https://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=eb1c4d5436&e=71131c031b" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Manifesto for Labour Law</span></a> project, which has received strong support from Scottish trade unions and Scottish Labour since its launch earlier this year.<br><br>She said a critical first step will be to raise awareness of the function and importance of trade unions among workers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020'>"In most workplaces in Scotland, that awareness does not exist," she explained.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:150%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020'>"We have to change this if we are to change the balance – because it will be only ordinary workers who will ultimately achieve fundamental social change."<br><br>While four decades of neoliberalism has left its mark on younger generations, many of whom have grown up without a strong sense of trade union power, the possibility of change is looking more favourable with the action of unions and the plight of workers hitting the headlines again and again.<br><br>Ken Loach's latest feature <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Sorry We Missed You </span></em>will see its general release on November 01 2019, and this time he applies his affecting social realism to the plight of workers in the "gig" economy. In the run-up to the release, the director showed his support for the real-life workers his film is based on by <a href="https://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=03af8f075e&e=71131c031b" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>phoning mail couriers on the picket line in London to give them his backing</span></a>.<br><br>The couriers, who work for eCourier - a contractor for Royal Mail - have been denied basic employment rights because the company insists they are self-employed, even after a colleague on an identical contract was found by the courts to be a 'worker'.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020'><a href="https://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=e58b6d28f1&e=71131c031b" target="_blank"><span style='color:#007C89'>Our experts recommend</span></a> that all people in employment are classified as 'workers' entitled to all workers' rights from day one on the job. Where the company believes its contractors are self-employed, the onus should be on the employer to prove this. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;border-bottom:solid #EAEAEA 1.5pt;background:white;padding:0cm 0cm 5.4pt 0cm;background:cover;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;background-size: cover;background-position-x:50%;background-position-y:50%' id=templateBody><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:5.4pt 5.4pt 5.4pt 5.4pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=264 style='width:158.4pt;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=264 id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/a7709457-2d3b-4aa2-96ce-342e68ade474.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=right width=264 style='width:158.4pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><h1><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#9D0C46'>Last chance to book! Equality & Discrimination 2019 </span></strong><o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#202020'>Join us and our expert panel of lawyers, academics and campaigners will for an update on all the latest developments in equality law and how workers' rights can be protected. <br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><span style='color:#9D0C46'>Speakers include:</span><o:p></o:p></h3><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Sharon Hutchinson, Unite<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 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