Motions

This Biennial Delegate Conference notes the failure of the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition to honour solemn commitments made in the national partnership agreements, Towards 2016 in relation to employment rights. The failure to introduce legislation...

This Conference is concerned about the growth of precarious forms of employment relationships. This is not a phenomenon occurring only on the fringes of the labour market. Precarious and unstable work is becoming the norm. Work contracts are increasingly...

This Conference notes that due to neo-liberal economic policies and the Celtic Tiger bubble in the case of the Republic of Ireland that higher income earners have fared much better in both percentage and actual pay terms than lower paid workers over the past...

This Conference notes that despite constant negativity towards the Public Service Agreement, generated by those who do not believe in public services and who do not care about those citizens who are dependent upon good public services, and despite the arrival...

This Conference declares that citizen focused public services are an essential element of a fair and decent society. Conference condemns the unwarranted attacks on public servants made in some sections of the media by the same commentators who helped inflate...

Conference calls on Congress to press the administrations in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland to urgently review the regulation of the independent care sector. This review should examine the standards of training of staff working in the sector...

Conscious of the serious implications for bank workers in the Irish Banking sector arising from the Government's announcement on the future structure of the Irish banking sector; this Conference calls on the Executive Council to seek to conclude an agreement...

This conference condemns the brutal murder of PSNI member Ronan Kerr. This brutal act and other acts of violence have no place in our society and the sole aim of those involved in this violence is to return our society to conflict. Conference re-affirms it's...

That this Delegate Conference notes the immense growth in the wealth gap in Ireland, as a small minority made extraordinary amounts of money with the economic boom during the Celtic Tiger years. Conference further notes that reports on income inequality reveal...

As part of the overall ICTU campaign to halt the attack on the welfare system and public services North and South, Conference resolves that we make the smartest and most strategic use of the tools available to us on equality and fundamental human rights. This...