Motions

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...

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...