Covid recovery must continue to be monitored for equality 

Conference is aware that covid-19 is the biggest challenge that we have faced in decades.  Although we have all faced the challenge the impact has not been felt equally across society.    

It is clear that the pandemic is exacerbating existing socio economic problems and we risk inequality continuing to be exacerbated as we try to find a new normal.    

Trade unions have a key role to play in ensuring that as services restart they are working to decrease the inequality not inadvertently exacerbating it. However to do this we need to understand data, understand how it is currently measured and how it should be measured and then know how to challenge that   

We are therefore calling on NIC ICTU to:    

1. Continue to use its resources to scrutinise the work of the executive, civil servants and of public services   

2. Run online courses on data and on section 75 and its role in easing inequality so that all reps can work collectively to challenge where inaccurate data is gathered or where there is evidence of widening inequality