Motions

Conference notes that union membership has been steadily increasing over the past number of years and has risen from 199,000 members in 2016 to over 253,000 members in 2023. Recent successful conclusions to several long running industrial disputes have added...

Conference recognises that the deplorable practice of active large-scale poaching of each other’s members by trade unions is detrimental to members interests. These practices reduce the capacity of members to fight for better pay and terms and conditions of...

Congress welcomes the fact that Northern Ireland again has the highest trade union membership density with 33.8% of workers being in a union. However, this is still 8.4 percentage points below where union density was in 1995. The figures are particularly...

Conference acknowledges the sacrifices made by thousands of workers during the Covid pandemic to maintain the economy and to keep us safe. Applause once a week at our doorsteps was no real reward after years of pay restraint across our public and private...

Conference notes that, at the time of writing, no new Executive has been formed following the Assembly elections held in May and that Ministers currently in place will cease to hold office if no new Executive is formed by the end of October, with the Secretary...

Congress notes that our communities face the biggest cost of living crisis in 40 years with twelve-month inflation running at above 12 percent and with the prospect of rising further as the knock-on impacts of the surge in energy prices are felt in foods and...

Conference notes the significant impact of the cost of living crisis on low paid workers in   Northern Ireland.  In June 2022, Usdaw surveyed thousands of low paid workers and the responses from Northern Ireland showed that:  57% said petrol prices and travel...

The issues of low pay, precarious work and poverty are prevalent across the arts and entertainment industry and have been entrenched further by the Covid-19 pandemic. Flaws in the universal credit and wider social security system are a major barrier for access...

The heartfelt hope of genuine trade unionists for maximum unity against the bosses and in the interests of our members is to be admired and commended. It is essential that if this aspiration is to be achieved then it must not just be the stuff of a well...

The importance of workplace democracy, more commonly referred to as collective bargaining, is the foundation upon which workers not only increase their wages, improve working conditions, and provide for workers families. It is much more than this, at a...