Motions

Due to on-going significant workforce challenges in radiography and many other professions international recruitment is being utilised more frequently to plug the widening workforce gap and deal with increasing levels of vacancies. In the UK we are seeing...

Conference asserts that it is a fundamental principle of our public services that they are free at the point of use and, that educational experiences that promote opportunity and achievement should not be determined by an ability to pay.     Conference...

Congress notes with concern the ongoing financial crisis in schools. Congress further notes the rising energy costs which are predicted to add more than 60% to existing costs across the education sector. Congress calls on the employing authorities to...

The FSU welcomes the initiative of the Minister for Finance in NI, Conor Murphy to hold a roundtable discussion in 2022 involving relevant stakeholders in the financial sector. We further welcome statements from the regulator, politicians and societal groups...

Conference notes that since the return of devolved Government in Northern Ireland in January 2020, workers across both public and private sectors have either been at the frontline in responding to the worst global public health crisis in living memory or have...

Conference, the past year has been seen us having to face unprecedented challenges with tragic loss of life and economic damage from the global pandemic impacting on workers and their families here and across the world. Northern Ireland has seen over 1,700...

Automation is not a new challenge to the Trade Union movement, however, the pace of change posed by new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) & digitalisation is staggering with some estimates putting jobs effected as high as 35% in the UK and 47%...

Securing decent jobs is a core aim of all trade unions, to build a better future for all we need to win fairly paid jobs across all sectors. To do this we need to campaign and organise. Conference calls on affiliate unions and Congress to support campaigns...

Congress is concerned that many workers in a wide range of different sectors are not receiving a decent break from work over the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Congress notes the results of the Christmas and New Year working surveys by Usdaw, which...

The omission of creative professionals from the list of self-employed workers benefiting from visa free travel for work purposes in Annex 3 is a huge blow to entertainment workers, the impact of which will be immediate and far reaching. Equity has already...