Motions

We request that ICTU make contact with each affiliated union and ensure that their regional offices set up and maintain communications, with Trade Union Councils around the country. Furthermore, we request that each union encourages local branch activists to...

Conference recognises the contribution that retired members have made and indeed are continuing to make to the trade union movement. In order that their skills may be fully utilised within their own unions and in the wider movement, this BDC agrees that ICTU...

That this Conference calls on the ICTU to publish a weekly commercial newspaper to promote affiliate trade unions and a society based on equality and justice.

Conference requests the incoming Executive Council to address the situation where trades council members, who are acting in an unpaid voluntary capacity as Board of Management members of individual Congress Network Centres, are exposed to financial liability...

Whereas the past two years have seen the imposition of aggressive regimes of fiscal consolidation in Northern Ireland and the Republic, this conference considers that the human cost of austerity is unsustainable. Through no fault of their own thousands of...

Conference calls on those in authority, in both jurisdictions and at EU level, to accept the complete failure of the austerity recipe as a response to the economic challenge. This has been spectacularly demonstrated through the experience in the Republic of...

Conference rejects the prevailing orthodoxy promoted by both the UK and Irish Governments that the cause of the financial and economic crises is excessive expenditure on public services and welfare benefits. Conference refutes any suggestion that ordinary...

Conference rejects the austerity measures imposed by Governments on working people in both parts of the island to pay for a debt that workers did not create. Conference also rejects claims that 'we are all in this together' as working people did not cause the...

This Conference unreservedly condemns the disastrous consequences of the previous Fianna Fail/Green Party coalition Government's fiscal austerity and failed banking policies. Conference also condemns the economic privations being visited on Northern Ireland by...

Congress regards the current economic and financial crisis as one which arises from the nature of our economic and social system. The concentration of economic power in the hands of giant financial and industrial monopolies, which use that power to influence...