Motions

Noting that the scale of unemployment is at a level which involves excessive human suffering, and is otherwise a threat to social cohesion, Conference calls on Government to respond positively to our proposals for investment in both economies on the island in...

Conference acknowledges with deep concern the increasing issue of precarious work, combining very high levels of flexibility with very low levels of job security, as a growing phenomenon in Ireland and the fact that precarious work has received little...

Conference directs the incoming Executive Council to express its genuine concern over the Government's JobBridge scheme, as it currently exists, without any oversight or direction from the Trade Union movement. The existing scheme depresses genuine job...

Congress notes with concern the disproportionate impact upon our young people by the recession in Ireland, North and South. In the Republic, the number of young people (under 25) in the labour force reduced by 50% between 2008 and the present. A disturbing...

This conference notes with concern the current decreasing membership numbers across the trade union movement. In particular, the young people currently joining the workforce are largely not joining unions. This conference also notes that a disproportionate...

Conference calls upon the Government to act decisively and without further delay to protect defined benefit pension schemes and to move towards universal occupational pensions coverage via mandatory tripartite savings schemes. It considers that it is...

This conference calls on the Executive Council to pursue with the European Globalisation Fund Managing Authority funding for the retraining of Irish redundant workers in sectors of Irish Industry such as the construction sector where many thousands of workers...

Congress notes: the crisis of casualisation (resulting from precarious employment contracts) in teaching and lecturing; the rapidly increasing number of teachers and lecturers who are in fixed-term, part-time employment, many of whom are suffering income...

Congress deplores the attempts by employers in the Public Sector to undermine the entitlements secured under the terms of the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 by refusing to afford to workers who have an entitlement to a Contract of...

Conference: ondemns the increasing incidence of bullying, including cyber bullying, and acts of violence perpetrated on workers in the education sector;calls on the employers of education workers to ensure that a safe working environment, free from violence...