News from LRD

Equal pay

Despite a quarter of a century of equal pay law, the pay gap has not disappeared. The June issue of the Labour Research Department (LRD) negotiators' magazine, Bargaining Report, examines what has been happening to equal pay claims over the last 12 months.

Among its main findings are that relatively few new equal pay cases were lodged this year; that unions seem to have diverted their attention more towards negotiated settlements; and that there continues to be a very low rate of success at tribunals.

Bargaining Report, June 2001, No 217, price £3.40 (LRD affiliates)/£4.25. From LRD, 78 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HF; 020 7928 3649; [email protected]

Visit the Labour Research Department at Congress

If you are going to be a delegate, visitor or exhibitor at this year's TUC Congress, why not come and visit LRD at stand 17? We will be launching our new website and there will be a range of LRD publications on sale.

Above all, the stall gives us an opportunity to chat with some of our affiliates and subscribers face to face, and to get important feedback from them.