Motions

Conference calls on the incoming Executive to work with its affiliated unions to: Campaign to demand the NI Executive fully restores the full Educational Maintenance Allowance payment to students pursuing education and training opportunities and aged 16-18...

Conference is concerned at the growing number of education employers who resist and actively discourage requests for flexible working. Conference notes with concern the evidence which shows that many workers are denied access to flexible working based on...

The effects of cutbacks on public expenditure and increased revenue raising took over out of the economy of the Irish Republic between 2008 and 2015. Not surprisingly, the consequence has been a downturn in economic demand and huge social consequences such as...

Conference notes that in the Republic, the government and its allies are now portraying the current economic and social conditions as a this recovery, however, Creating a labour market permeated with precarious employment and in-work deprivation.Burdening...

This conference notes that high levels of unemployment, wage devaluation and wage cuts, regressive taxation, reactionary labour market policies, cuts in public sector employment and increasing rents have all contributed to increasing levels of poverty and...

Mindful of the unprecedented changes that have taken place in the banking sector since 2008which have not only included the major convulsions associated with the widespread restructuring of key institutions but also the substantial transformation in the...

Congress endorses the anti-austerity campaign waged by NIC-ICTU and our affiliates and commits the full support of Congress across the entire island of Ireland. In the deeply divided and unequal society that is Northern Ireland the stance taken by Congress to...

Conference acknowledges the importance of the increased opposition across many countries in Europe to the austerity programmes of national governments and the European Union as a significant and positive development which should be encouraged and supported by...

That this Congress believes that the UK Tory government's much-heralded recovery is a recovery only for the wealthy, as the 1,000 richest in the UK increased their wealth by £70 billion in the last year. This exposes the lie that there is less money around for...

Conference expresses its concern at a number of core elements of the Stormont House Agreement (SHA) which was agreed by the main political parties in Northern Ireland in December 2014. Conference recognises the need to strengthen the peace process and for this...