Motions

That this Biennial Delegate Conference re-affirms the support of the ICTU for industrial democracy and, in particular, believes that it is imperative that State Agencies which operate under a Board should have Worker Directors on the Board. Furthermore...

Congress, recognising the link between education investment, improved quality of life, economic competitive advantage and a more equal society, calls on Governments North and South to prioritise education spending at primary level to ensure that: expenditure...

The experience of seven years of austerity has removed any doubt about the real relationship between states and markets. The market is a ruthless place where people sustain grievous injuries. It is the responsibility of the state to protect its citizens from...

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...