Motions

The Public Health Agency (PHA) recognises that reducing health inequalities is central to ensuring economic and social progress and that reducing entrenched health inequalities is not something that the PHA alone can achieve. In 2015 the Royal Society of...

Our health and social care system is once again awash with a series of reviews. This continuous review syndrome has been used as a smokescreen to avoid the radical change necessary to produce a public health system to meet the needs of the people. Meanwhile...

This conference notes that 30,000 men in GB are living with terminal prostrate cancer but are not being offered enough care and support to combat the disease. This Conference instructs the NIC to join with other interested organisations to obtain from the...

This Conference is concerned at the continued under-funding of the NHS. This is putting lives at risk and is causing Patients’ anxiety and distress in particular when treatment is cancelled. The underfunding has resulted in the local NHS trusts having to...

This conference in wishes a greater focus upon employment rights in the forthcoming Assembly elections and seeks that NIC ICTU issues a Charter for Fair Conditions at Work to be distributed to all Political Parties standing in the election. The Charter should...

Conference calls on Congress to renew the campaign for a review of Industrial Relations procedures and the establishment of new models which will be a vehicle for the resolution of collective and individual disputes without the requirement to resolve them by...

Conference believes that good citizenship and active participation in the wider political sphere can be fostered by the introduction of ‘Industrial Democracy’ in the workplace. Allowing workers to have a greater say in decision-making at work helps improve...

Under the cover of ‘austerity’ many governments have seized the opportunity to advance the neo-liberal agenda and slash public services, public employment and the provision of services. In consequence, living standards have dropped for the mass of the people...

Conference remains deeply concerned at the impact on domestic seafarers from ferry operators trading in the Irish Sea who recruit crews from outside the minimum wage. For example Conference notes that Polish seafarer ratings employed by freight operator...

Conference asserts that the current school governance arrangements in Northern Ireland schools increasingly are not fit for purpose. Conference pays tribute to teacher governors who seek to hold their boards of governors to account and who represent the...