Motions

Conference notes that Northern Ireland was excluded from the Warm Home Discount Scheme when it was introduced in GB by the Westminster government in 2011. Conference agrees that there is no justification for low-income households in NI to be treated less...

Congress is deeply concerned by the compelling evidence of the increasing incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace, including sexist ‘jokes’ and ‘banter’, unwanted touching and the growing objectification of women and girls. Congress is appalled at the...

Congress is alarmed by the persistence of sexual harassment at work and the fact that almost every woman will at some point in her lifetime experience sexual harassment. A recent EU-Wide European study found that over a million women or one in every two in the...

As long ago as 2013, the Federation of Entertainment Unions published a survey which identified entertainment workplaces as hotspots of discrimination, bullying, and harassment. The competitive nature of the work, often seen as glamorous, and the large number...

Conference condemns the attempt by Civil Service Management to attack the longstanding secondment arrangements which have been in place for many years on two of NIPSA’s high profile activists. This runs alongside the attempts to or stop the facility time of...

Congress is alarmed by the blatant disregard in too many post-primary schools of the Health, Safety and Welfare of teachers, support staff and students in practical subjects. Congress is deeply concerned that in response to requests by some principals a...

Conference (i) notes with concern the growing number of assaults, both physical and verbal, by parents and pupils on teachers and other education workers which go unreported in schools. (ii) further notes the zero tolerance approach to assaults on workers in...

Conference continues to oppose the ongoing practice of nationality based pay discrimination in the commercial shipping industry which undercuts and excludes seafarers on both sides of the Irish Sea. Conference notes with concern that operators such as Seatruck...

Conference notes with disappointment that the current political crisis continues with no restoration of devolution in sight in the short term. Whilst the restoration of locally devolved government is not a panacea to all our problems, it is a necessary...

As we meet, it is approximately 450 days since the NI Assembly was suspended. With still no progress on the re-establishment of the executive in Northern Ireland one of the unintended consequences is that significant decision are being made with no democratic...