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annual report OFFICERS President: Professor Keith Ewing Chairperson: John Hendy QC Treasurer: Geoffrey D Shears Director: Carolyn Jones

2015 INTRODUCTION Our 25th anniversary year was both a pleasure and a triumph. A pleasure in that our core collective bargaining message was disseminated to a countrywide audience via meetings and social media. A triumph in that it was our best financial year in nearly a decade.

However, we also faced our difficulties. We experienced an unusually high turnover of staff which had a negative impact on our sales and promotions strategy, problems partly negated by a corresponding reduction in expenditure. However, reducing staffing and activity levels in not a sustainable strategy, particularly as we enter a ruthless, anti-trade union period in UK politics. With that in mind, we are now rebuilding our staffing structure to ensure we have the resources to inform the debate and disseminate the arguments. We believe that our positive financial position and our new staffing structure, mean we can approach the difficult Tory years ahead with strength and determination. ADMINISTRATION Administratively it has been a turbulent year. Carolyn Starr our Events Officer, left in July 2014 and Treena Johnson our Administration Officer left in January 2015. As an interim solution we appointed two temporary members of staff in July 2014 to cover work on events and communication.

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Beth McNally works two days a week on events and Claudia O’Brian works two days a week updating our website and producing our weekly News Brief. In the longer term, the Officers agreed to reshape our staffing structure and rebuild our staffing complement back to three full time members of staff. In April 2015 James Harrison was appointed as National Coordinator, responsible for admin, finances and events. Our next appointment will be a Development Officer, tasked with taking our message out via the website, social media and the press. We hope to have that person in place by the end of this year.

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MEMBERS AND SUBSCRIBERS Our membership figure currently stands at 79 of which 41 are trade union representatives.

Our subscription numbers have increased for the fourth year on the run, up from 624 in 2013 to 652 last year. Individual subscriptions have increased from 304 to 312, trade union branch subscriptions are up from 209 to 212 and commercial/library subscriptions have increased from 23 to 26. We have 9 international subscribers (up 1) and 44 free subscribers – people who speak at IER events (up 10). This welcome increase in numbers is despite a university cancelling its central subscription package for students, resulting in our student subscriptions falling from 47 to nil. However, we suspect that many of those students now subscribe direct as we have seen an increase in our reduced rate subscribers, which now stands at 49. Once again our electronic subscription list has grown substantially. Last year we reported an impressive 5,527 people were receiving our e-alerts – up 2% on the previous year. This year our electronic subscribers total 5,886 – an increase of over 6%. That increase in online activity is not, unfortunately, reflected in online sales. Last year we reported sales worth £14,569. This year we report a figure of £12,816.11. However, we had less to sell last year and fewer people to sell it! Nevertheless, we still managed to recruit 36 new subscribers via the website and 34 existing subscribers also decided to renew online.

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PUBLICATIONS PLANNED FOR 2015/16 • Mythbuster 1 Access to justice by Andrew Moretta • Mythbuster 2 Busting the business Myths by David Whyte • Surveillance at work by Shah Qureshi • Labour Law Highlights by Old Square Chambers • Reviewing UK union laws by a panel of IER experts COMMISSIONS, PROJECTS AND PUBLIC POLICY WORK Last year was our 25th Anniversary year and Keith Ewing began the year with an annual lecture, the theme of which was What kind of laws should trade unions demand from a Labour government. That theme fed through

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Collective bargaining was also the theme of a piece of commissioned work from the North West TUC. They approached us to prepare a report assessing the impact of the decline in collective bargaining in the region. The report was produced by academics at Leeds University and was so successful it was rolled out to other TUC regions. IER Subscribers Trade Unions Lawyers Unwaged

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At the end of the production year we also had two further publications waiting to be produced. They followed the popular Myth Busting formulas with one looking at Business Myths by David Whyte and one at access to justice myths by Andrew Moretta. However, production was delayed and will now be published early in the 2015/16 year.

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many of our events for the year. Our main project remained focused on promoting our ideas around the need for sectoral collective bargaining. Our planned tour with a theatre company on the theme of collective bargaining did not materialise. However, we did win funding for a short YouTube clip starring Keith Ewing and John Hendy which has been a popular addition to our website and has been viewed at a number of events around the country. We also fed those themes into a series of regional events organised in association with CLASS and the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom. Events took place in London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Leeds and Glasgow.

Our final publication was our popular Labour Law Highlights 2014 – a brief summary of the main developments in statutory and judicial decisions, produced by our team of barristers at old Square Chambers – Rebecca Tuck, Stuart Brittenden, Betsan Cridle and Claire BowsherMurray.

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Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin drafted a booklet on the topical issue of Re-regulating Zero Hours Contracts. The timely nature of the report and Contracts the informed way in which it linked changes to the benefit system with the growth in zero hour contracts meant it attracted much attention.

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Our World of Work project is now up and running. Andrew Moretta started his PhD of the same theme in September and we have had a number of meetings with him and his academic supervisors at Liverpool University. Andrew has now submitted a draft of our proposed booklet – a myth buster on access to justice. IER Subscribers Trade Unions Commercial Unwaged

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Employment Law Update was once again our best attended conference, with 87 delegates attending the Liverpool event. We also organised a high profile panel of speakers to address the question of what trade unions want after the election. That event attracted 68 delegates in London but the ideas reached a far wider audience thanks to the accompanying four page special pull-out in the Morning Star. Next year the Institute aims to hold at least 8 events, 5 in London and 3 in Liverpool. Depending on the result of the election and the programme of the incoming government, additional events can be added to our schedule as required. EVENTS FOR 2015-16

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• Workplace Issues: taking up the issues with the new government • Human Rights: possibilities and problems for labour law

Our blogs are the most visited pages on the website, with most blogs receiving around 500-800 visits each this year. The most popular blog was visited 9,000 times. The numbers contributing to our blog space have also grown, up from 35 to 40. A new video on collective bargaining featuring John Hendy and Keith Ewing has been viewed 500 times since it was published in February, and a new resource on Access to Justice has been viewed 316 times since it was published late March. The number of users of the website has increased by 7.5%. This may reflect an increased Twitter presence - traffic coming to the website from twitter has increased by 120% this year. The IER’s twitter account now has 787 followers, compared to 516 this time last year. Many tweets get retweeted, with the record for retweets being 363 times, significantly expanding the audience of our website pages. Given the growing significance of social media as a means of accessing news, it seems appropriate that improving our twitter presence and acquiring more followers be a point of focus going into the next year. Our plans to run 4 specialist “webinars” a year have not yet materialised but we hope to revisit those plans once our Development Officer is in place. Plus, we aim to improve how we present our weekly News Brief. CONCLUSION As we enter this first year of what could be a 5 year Conservative government we know times ahead will be hard. Trade unions and their members will remain at the forefront of protecting living standards. As such they will face attacks from politicians keen to suppress opposition and stifle collective action. It’s already started.

At IER we are determined to continue our role as promoter of trade union freedoms and defender of employment rights. Carolyn Jones, Director cad@ier.org.uk

IER Officers & EC OFFICERS President: Professor Keith Ewing Chairperson: John Hendy QC Treasurer: Geoffrey D Shears Director: Carolyn Jones VICE PRESIDENTS Tess Gill Old Square Chambers Paul Kenny GMB Professor Aileen McColgan Dr Sonia McKay Len McLuskey UNITE Dave Prentis UNISON

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Richard Arthur Thompsons Howard Beckett, UNITE Christine Blower NUT Alan Bogg Steve Cottingham O H Parsons Nicola Countouris Ruth Dukes Steve Gibbons Professor Phil James Tony Kearns CWU Paul Mackney Karon Monaghan QC Matrix Chambers Robert Monks URTU Tonia Novitz Rod Robertson UNISON Mark Serwotka PCS Bob Simpson Barry Smith GMB Liz Snape UNISON Michelle Stanistreet NUJ Paul Statham Pattinson & Brewer Ed Sweeney ACAS Barbara Switzer Sarah Veale TUC Dr David Whyte University of Liverpool Dr Frank Wilkinson Matt Wrack FBU

Year to 31st March 2015

Budget 2014/15

Actual 2014/15

Actual 2013/14

Sales of Publications

14,000

8,579

19,024

Donations

42,000

49,253

41,601

Subscriptions

27,000

23,892

25,443

Sponsorship

3,500

2,050

3,049

34,000

33,756

34,174

Royalties

1,000

420

1,127

Commissioned Work

5,000

3,575

6,000

Project Development

10,000

250

2,975

£s

INCOME

Seminar Receipts

Bank Interest Advertising TOTAL INCOME

Printing: Promotional (inc C&S Packs) Printing: Publications Design Work Salaries

1,728

138,020

121,812

135,132

9,000

7,549

9,373

12,000

5,482

13,699

250

88,258

68,087

89,338

Rent

4,000

4,749

3,266

Sundries

1,750

998

1,621

750

423

1,070

1,000

1,092

990

C&S Room Hire (Inc Refreshments)

5,500

5,142

7,136

Professional Fees

1,500

2,246

Insurance Mike Macdondald PROSPECT/BACM Leslie Manasseh PROSPECT Lesley Mercer CSP Professor Jonathan Michie Gerry Morrissey BECTU Steve Murphy UCATT Doug Nicholls GFTU Ged Nichols Accord Joe O’Hara Peter Pendle ACM Dave Penman FDA Tim Poil NGSU Roy Rickhuss Community Mickey Rubenstein Paul Scholey Morrish Solicitors LLP Mike Seifert Grahame Smith STUC Gordon Taylor PFA Baroness Muriel Turner Mick Whelan ASLEF Dave Whyte Liverpool University

1,500

EXPENDITURE

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IER Members Stephen Cavalier Thompsons Mike Clancy PROSPECT Phil Clarke Chantrey Vellacott Manuel Cortes TSSA Professor Paul Davies Professor Simon Deakin Professor Linda Dickens Mark Dickinson NAUTILUS International Ronnie Draper BFAWU Richard Evans SOR Kate Fallon AEP Michael Ford Old Square Chambers John Foster Steve Gillan POA John Hannett USDAW Billy Hayes CWU Harry Hockaday UNITY Sally Hunt UCU Chris Keates NASUWT Chris Kitchen NUM Ian Lawrence NAPO Professor Roy Lewis

IER Budget Report 2014-15

Conferences & Seminars

C&S Hotels

200

C&S Fares

200

128

Travel

1,800

2,094

1,926

Telephones

1,300

1,288

1,217

Office Stationery

1,350

996

1,395

Postage: Couriers

1,000

750

1,198

Postage: Mailing

4,500

4,552

4,175

Repairs & Maint

500

IT development

1,500

1,499

799

Bank Charges

1,300

1,153

1,295

500

138,158

108,100

139,136

–138

13,712

–4,004

21,401

14,554

Re-Location

TOTAL EXPENDITURE Surplus/Deficit Money in bank:

261

Bills to be paid

2,399

Invoices owed to us

2,965